Curiosidades

With his Russian twin brother, owns a castle in France. They have both been accused of business misappropriations and of not paying their staff, questions they also deflect while maintaining that they have no interest in money.

Died of Covid-19 six days after his twin brother Grichka died due to the same disease.

Twin brother of Grichka Bogdanoff.

His great-grandfather Boris Alexandrovich Bogdanov was shot to death in the Russian Revolution (1917).

The Bogdanov twins were producers of a French science television show, Temps X, and authors of Dieu et la science [1991]. In 2002, some scientists suggested that the published scientific papers of the brothers were an elaborate hoax. Other scientists support the brothers.

Son of Yuri Mikhailovich Bogdanov (b. Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), 28 Jan 1928) and wife Maria Dolores ("Maya") Kolowrat (b. Basle, 28 Feb 1926).

His paternal grandfather Mikhail Borisovich Bogdanov was Russian.

His paternal grandmother Anna Osten-Sacken was German.

His maternal grandfather was Roland Wiltse Hayes (b. Curryville, Georgia, 8 Sep 1887, d. Boston, Massachusetts, 1 Jan 1977), a noted African American lyric tenor.

His maternal grandmother was Bertha Henriette Katharina Nadine Gräfin von Kolowrat-Krakowský (b. Teinitzl (now Tynec nad Klatov, Czech Republic), 21 June 1890, d. Auch, 29 Jan 1982).