This is what Ksenia Solovyova, editor-in-chief of the Russian Tatler, says about this event
Where did the tradition of the debutante ball begin? In England, back in the 17th century, when young ladies dressed exclusively in white were presented to the queen so that they would quickly make a good match. In the absence of our Elizabeth, we will present the debutantes to the guests - the capital's society. There is no need to get married immediately - the girls still have so much ahead of them, but to dance a waltz and polonaise, in a couture dress, with young men from the Bolshoi Theater, in front of their emotional parents - what could be more interesting?
On what basis were the girls chosen? The place of the head of the family on the Forbes list did not decide anything. Yes, among our debutantes there are heiresses of large fortunes, but from the very beginning we wanted to create the right mix of creative intelligentsia, big business and respected dynasties. I hope it worked.
What about politics? Unfortunately, in a country where no one has ever seen the daughters of the prime minister, this is problematic. The authorities send a signal to the powers that be to “keep their heads down,” although, for example, George Bush’s daughter danced at a ball in New York. But I want to believe that someday we will stop living behind closed fences.
What does it take to be among the debutantes next year? It is unlikely that we will announce the “Looking for Debutantes” campaign on TV and hold a nationwide vote a la “Minute of Fame” - the format of the event is quite closed, and we do not hesitate to declare this. We will hold the first ball and immediately begin selecting future candidates. It's purely an editorial matter. But I already have some promising high school students in mind. The light is shaking!
Did all the designers immediately agree to make the outfits? I would be lying if I said that everything was simple. Haute Couture- that part of the fashion industry where “just” does not exist. Even Hollywood stars outfits often have to be fought out. Fashion houses radiated enthusiasm, but meticulously inquired about the girls’ ins and outs - from “mom and dad” to waist circumference. We treated this with understanding. In the end, both they and we need the ball. After all, designers realize that today's debutantes are their tomorrow's clients. And today it is worth explaining to them that couture is not something inaccessible and mothballed, stored in a box on the mezzanine, but a very real adventure.
Do you remember your personal secular debut? For some reason, visiting the Kremlin Cup comes to mind. I am sixteen, tennis, which I adored since childhood, is the most secular and fashionable sport, in the VIP sector (oh this unfamiliar alluring word) are Boris Yeltsin and all the largest fortunes of that desperate time. It was customary to dress for daytime matches as it is today for seated dinners. So I dressed up: in a “shouldered” sheepskin coat stolen from my mother, leggings (that’s what they were called then) and boots. Probably, from the outside, the spectacle was terribly comical, but even now I am overcome by a nagging feeling of nostalgia. Although I must admit that my final goal - meeting the six-foot-tall son of a Swiss banker, tennis player Mark Rosset, for a subsequent trip to his historical homeland - did not achieve my dressing up.
While passions about Russia are boiling on the Internet - what it was and what it should be, while tired liberals and putirasts are meeting in a clinch on the Internet, separated either by the Soviets or by the Stalinists, in real life hatch their chicks into the world the mighty of the world ours.
To my greatest regret, I do not know how to insert a video into the text, but I will provide a link to it. Be sure to check it out! Be sure to check it out! There are just thirteen minutes of concentrated filth, dressed in luxurious outfits and shrouded in live classical music. http://vk.com/video-85529314_171611624?hash=f0ea3a0ed852cdf1
When you watch and listen to this, you will absolutely know what the pre-revolutionary days were like in a dying Russian Empire. You will understand those soldiers and sailors who at that time said to others who were jubilant and enthusiastic: “Come on, noble ones, who else wants to live - everyone on the floor”.
You will hear with your own ears "We're somewhere deep down there, um, blue blood, um, we always have balls" and we are only here now, and tomorrow: “After the ball, naturally, she will go back to England, she is studying there.” Don’t look at the fact that this is an unknown actress in front of you, listen to how much she hates you. Just like Matroskin’s granddaughter: Oh, I live in London, they take us from there and take us away, I don’t plan to return, I feel good in Europe".
A famous composer, the son of an even more famous composer, will tell you: "Look, this is the Spirit of the Nation!" And this spirit, in the gentle voice of a young lady, will confidentially tell you: I'm currently studying in France and I REALLY want my own business! I don’t know what kind, something related to design or drawing, but I will definitely have my OWN BUSINESS!” The sweet and stylish Tatler correspondent, smiling in your eyes, will tell you: "It was the daughter of presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov - Elizaveta."
And the image of a sailor in a leather jacket with a rusty revolver will flash through your head again: “Come on, put all your goodies in the bag, ladies, oh yes, take off your dresses too.”
When you watch them, you will not feel any malice towards them. You've seen them more than once. You heard their fathers who told us and will tell us more than once “about the Russian World, about patriotism, about the damned agents of the State Department among ordinary people, about love for the Motherland and about internal enemies. They will talk, and their children will study in England, relax in Nice, have fun at balls and masquerades, do business and dislike Russia. And we will continue to survive in a cold country, where snow lies most of the year, where the salary ceiling in cities with a population of over a million is limited to 20 thousand rubles, and prices rise in proportion to the number of lies on TV screens." http://kharchikov.livejournal.com/
You will feel their hatred. Hatred towards you. Hate for the fact that you are still alive. And you will feel their anger towards this country. To your country and mine.
When you watch this, you will feel something has changed in the air. What began to hover within him so much like the ghost of a Bolshevik with a bottle of vodka in one hand and a jagged bayonet in the other. Looking in the mirror at this moment, you will shudder: “ oh wow, he looks like a communist great-grandfather, the old one reached out» http://kharchikov.livejournal.com/
You may hate yourself for it, but you, like me, will understand that it must be done. It is impossible to do otherwise, because what you looked at and our entire country from end to end as it is today is a spit in the face of us all.
16-year-old Stesha Malikova captioned this photo against the backdrop of bottles of Beluga vodka: “The glasses are empty... and after the ball?”
The glass is also marked “Beluga”.
The ball that Stesha mentions is the Tatler debutante ball. Although I personally don’t dare call this rural disco a ball.
Look at the sour faces of these debutantes. If there is a place for debut on them, it is only in group anal sex.
Photo: Alexandra Ulyanova
Stesha Malikova diligently processes her photographs in Photoshop before publishing them, but the ruthless lens of a third-party photographer clearly captures the floating oval of her face.
Photo: Alexandra Ulyanova
At the age of 16, managing to look like a woman who could be the mother of a 16-year-old daughter is certainly a talent. A talent for a very specific way of life.
“It seems to me that L.N. Tolstoy is precisely in such an airy, light, graceful, graceful and simple dress I wanted to show Natasha Rostova with her childish smile and desire to give all her love to the guests,” Stesha comments on her dress.
It seems to me that Tolstoy’s idea of how a debutante should look was better understood by the costume designer of the film “War and Peace.”
Photo: Social networks
This is lightness and airiness, and the daughter of the bad singer Malikov has boobs saggy in her neckline.
By the way, actress Savelyeva was 25 years old when she played Natasha Rostova at her first ball, but there was more purity in her face than all these 16-year-old debutantes combined.
Photo: Alexandra Ulyanova
The lady in blue is 17 years old. Can you believe it? The second is 18. The feeling is that both have three heavy divorces behind them and a garrison of flying hussars, you know where.
Navka and her daughter also made their mark. They look like sisters, but not because the figure skater is perfectly preserved, but because the daughter is not far from Stifler’s mother, judging by her facial expression.
Photo: Alexandra Ulyanova, Getty Images
Our, my goodness, debutantes today have frantic, stale faces and bad taste.
Photo: Alexandra Ulyanova
I found a photograph that, in my opinion, perfectly symbolizes the secular society of Russia today.
Photo: Alexandra Ulyanova
Cheap yellow blond hair, a collective farm dress, posing for the camera with gestures typical of cheap girls, and all this against the backdrop of rotten boards and mold.
And this ball is crowned by Glucose’s taped nipples over the wing of a rumpled swan.
Photo: Alexandra Ulyanova
This is exactly what happens when the slaves, having hung the princes on pillars, enter the palace and decide to throw a ball there. And no matter how these “rags to riches” try, no matter how they puff themselves up, the result is always a drunken, rural disco.
A couple of hours ago, in the Column Hall of the capital's House of Unions, a luxurious reception was held in honor of the future heroines of social life - the Tatler magazine's Debutante Ball.
The tradition of holding balls to celebrate the presentation of mature daughters to the world has been known since the 19th century. Then in high society it was believed that if a girl made her debut at the ball, it means she has matured and is ready to consider marriage proposals. In 1992, such balls were revived in France, where they began to organize Bal des débutantes - charity evenings, the heroines of which were 25 heiresses of aristocratic families from different countries peace. And since 2010, the Debutante Ball has been held in Moscow. The tradition was revived on the initiative of the editors of the secular magazine Tatler. The Tatler Ball has been taking place in the historical interiors of the House of Unions for the seventh year in a row. The place is iconic - it was here, in the Hall of Columns, that similar balls were held in the 19th century.
The heroines of the evening appear in the hall, accompanied by their parents. They are worried, where would they be without this? Some of them have already been under the gun of dozens of cameras, some will go through the “secular path” for the first time, but everyone understands that the first ball is like prom: Happens only once in a lifetime.
During the evening, debutantes show off couture outfits. Chanel, Dior, Elie Saab - the best creations of world designers are selected, and someone sews them to order months before they wear them. The dress is a very significant element of the image. Even today, at the Debutante Ball, appropriateness is valued and shocking behavior is not encouraged. So, last year, 14-year-old Dina Nemtsova received the most compliments, largely thanks to good image. The closed dress with a cape from Edem Couture, in which Dina appeared at the ball, would have been the envy of Natasha Rostova herself. By the way, Dina confidently surpassed Tolstoy’s great-great-great-granddaughter (the same one), who was also a debutante in 2016, in terms of the number of likes. This is the power of the dress.
Ekaterina Odintsova with her son Anton and daughter Dina
Of course, all the girls had been preparing for this evening for a long time. Together with the Bolshoi Theater ballet dancers, each of them learned polonaises and waltzes, and with their parents they honed answers to possible questions from journalists. And yet, the Debutante Ball is perhaps the most touching and sincere social event of the year. And only here you can see A-class celebrities in the corner worrying about their daughters and granddaughters and, despite their regalia, not eager to get their own share of attention.
Granddaughter of Vladislav Tretyak - Anna Emshanova and daughter of Tatyana Navka and Alexander Zhulin - Alexandra
Vladimir Spivakov
Alexander and Emma Malinin
Ekaterina Odintsova, Yulia Baranovskaya and Yana Rudkovskaya with children
List of Debutantes of the Tatler Ball 2017
1) (great-great-granddaughter of ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya) 
2) Pelageya Basmanova (granddaughter of the poet Joseph Brodsky) 
3) Sasha Zhulina (daughter of figure skaters Tatyana Navka and Alexander Zhulin) 
Sasha Zhulina with her father Alexander Zhulin
4) Miroslava Mikhailova (daughter of actor Alexander Mikhailov, star of the film “Love and Doves”) 
5) Sofya Evstigneeva (granddaughter of actor Evgeny Evstigneev)
6) Alina Novak (daughter of Energy Minister Alexander Novak)
7) Yvette Nevinnaya (granddaughter of actor Vyacheslav Nevinny) 
8) Nina Totibadze (daughter of artist Konstantin Totibadze)
9) Sonya Tarkhanova (daughter of publisher Karina Dobrotvorskaya)
Sonya Tarkhanova
10) Anna Emshanova (granddaughter of hockey player Vladislav Tretyak) 
11) Anna Rozhdestvenskaya (daughter of musician Andrei Makarevich) 
12) Ustinya Malinina (daughter of musician Alexander Malinin) 
Vladislav Tretyak with his family
Basta with family
Alexander Mikhailov with his wife
Bozena Rynska
Elizaveta Peskova with the guest of the evening
Tina Kandelaki with her daughter
Yana Rudkovskaya
Vladislav Tretyak with his granddaughter
Alexander Malinin with his daughter
Alexander Zhulin with his daughter
Anastasia Vinokur and Grigory Matveevichev
For the 6th year in a row, the most luxurious, sophisticated and at the same time family event- Tatler magazine ball. For one evening, secular Moscow seems to be transported to the 19th century: ladies carry on small talk in dresses with full skirts to the floor, their gentlemen, dressed in tuxedos, politely ensure that the women always have a full glass in their hands...
But the main characters of the evening are, of course, the young heirs of influential parents, who, according to tradition, make their debut in high society on the day of the ball. They waltz around in couture outfits, attracting admiring glances, and by the end of the evening they manage to acquire a whole list of useful contacts and important appointments.
This year, among the debutantes were the heirs of pop artists, politicians, businessmen and representatives of the sports and film elite.
The daughter of director Renata Litvinova, 15-year-old Ulyana Dobrovskaya, fluttered across the polished parquet floor in a black and blue Dior dress, the heiress of singer Dmitry Malikov, 16-year-old Stefania, and the youngest of the daughters of Olympic wrestling champion Mikhail Mamiashvili, 15-year-old Elizaveta, appeared before by the public in a shimmering Elie Saab creation.
From the audience, Lisa was actively supported by her entire family - father Mikhail, mother Margarita, older sister Tatiana and her husband Sergei, brothers Yuri and Mikhail... Tata Bondarchuk continuously filmed everything that was happening on a smartphone, trying to capture every moment so significant day. When the young beauty began to waltz with her father, the famous director's daughter-in-law was moved and shed a tear.
But not all the girls at the ball managed to dance with their dads. , and Ulyana Dobrovskaya is the youngest son of Oleg Tabakov, 21-year-old Pavel.
Meanwhile, celebrities who came to the ball without children enjoyed a great time and feasted on delicious treats. Glucose couldn’t resist trying all kinds of French pastries, and honestly admitted to her friends that she “swept everything away” from the sweet table. The friends nodded understandingly: indeed, it was impossible to resist.
The evening ended with mass photo sessions in the exquisite interiors of the Hall of Columns and an equally massive traffic jam at the entrance to the House of Unions. But the celebrities were not bored while waiting for their cars: so many interesting things happened that evening that they, without a doubt, had something to discuss. And the debutantes with friends and parents headed to the Bolshoi restaurant, where a gala dinner was held, organized by the Farfetch online platform.