Gordeeva's grandmother read Grimm's fairytales to her, not knowing that's how Gordeeva would later describe her life - like a fairytale. Gordeeva's parents both worked hard and traveled so much that Gordeeva and her sister, Maria, often stayed with their grandparents. Her mother, Elena Levovna, was a teletype operator for the Soviet newsagent Tass. Her father, Alexander Alexeyevich Gordeev, a folk dancer for the Moiseev Dance Company, wanted Gordeeva to become a ballet dancer. Gordeeva was born in Moscow, Russia, on May 28, 1971. In 1995, at age 28, her partner and husband Grinkov died of a heart attack. In their 13 years of skating together, Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov were first co-workers, became friends, then fell in love, married, became parents and won four world championships and two Olympic gold medals. Ekaterina Gordeeva is a Russian champion ice skater.
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