18 Facts About Tatiana Totmianina

Tatiana Ivanovna Totmianina is a Russian former competitive pair skater.

Tatiana Totmianina skated at the Perm sports palace and began to take lessons.

Tatiana Totmianina had switched to pair skating in 1993 but was without a partner at the time.

Tatiana Totmianina declined due to lack of ice and connections but he accepted in 2001 when Moskvina again directed them to him.

The day after winning their first World title, Tatiana Totmianina suffered a dislocated shoulder in practice.

On 23 October 2004, during the free skate at the 2004 Skate America in Pittsburgh, Marinin lost his balance while attempting an axel lasso lift and Tatiana Totmianina slammed into the ice head first.

Tatiana Totmianina sustained a concussion and spent the night in a local hospital.

Tatiana Totmianina recovered from her injuries rapidly and was able to return to the ice within days.

Tatiana Totmianina began seeing a sport psychologist who helped him overcome it.

In December 2005, Tatiana Totmianina was hospitalized with a gall bladder problem.

Tatiana Totmianina has appeared in several seasons of the Russian show Ice Age, as a skater or judge.

Tatiana Totmianina continues to skate with Marinin in Russian ice shows, alongside other famous skaters including her fiance, Yagudin.

Tatiana Totmianina's father was emotionally distant and abandoned the family when she was seven.

Tatiana Totmianina lived nearby but offered no assistance to them; his daughter and her mother lived with his mother, who had schizophrenia and often became violent.

Tatiana Totmianina said that she and her mother became nearly inseparable, "like Siamese twins".

Once Tatiana Totmianina was more comfortable financially, she bought her mother a car and her own apartment in Saint Petersburg.

On 20 November 2009, Tatiana Totmianina gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Elizaveta.

On 20 May 2015, they announced that Tatiana Totmianina was pregnant with the couple's second child.