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All You Need to Know about Viktor Medvedchuk and his
Yacht Royal Romance
Yacht Name: Royal Romance -
Viktor Medvedchuk Net Worth: US$ 800 million -
Royal Romance Yacht
Royal Romance is a 92 meter Feadship built as hull #1005, designed by De Voogt Naval Architects.
She has a steel hull and an aluminum superstructure. She is powered by two MTU diesel engines. She has a top speed of 16 knots. And a cruise speed of 13.5 knots. Her range is more than 4,500nm.
Her length is 92 m (305ft), her beam 14.3 meter (46 ft). Her draught is 3.85m (12.8 ft).
Yacht Interior
Her interior design is done by Seymour Diamond. One of her features is a 12 meter pool (4 meters wide), which flows into a waterfall.
22 Crew Members
Royal Romance accommodates 14 guests and 22 crew members. She was delivered to her owner in July 2015.
US$ 200 Million Value
Royal Romance has an estimated value of more than US$ 200 million.
Yacht Charter
The boat is not available for yacht charter. And she is not listed for sale.
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Viktor Medvedchuk
The Ukrainian based oligarch is said to be the owner of the yacht Royal Romance.
Replacement for the 2008 Yacht Romance
SuperYachtFan thinks Royal Romance is a replacement of the 2008 CRN yacht Romance. As both yachts have the same R in their logos. After some intensive search on the Internet, SuperYachtFan found this blog. Which mentions Viktor Medvedchuk as the owner of the yacht Romance.
If that information is correct, than Medvedchuk is also the owner of the Royal Romance yacht. Romance was sold and is now named Royal Rubin. We think she is named after an International Grand Prix stallion and is owned by a UK owner.
Who is Viktor Medvedchuk?
He is an Ukrainian based oligarch and close friend of Russian President Putin. He is known as one of the ‘Kiev Seven’ and founder of a Kiev based law firm.
The Kiev Seven are a group of very succesfull businessmen. The Kyiv Seven includes Medvedchuk, Valentyn Zhursky, Grygoriy and Ihor Surkis, Bohdan Hubsky, Yuriy Karpenko and Yuriy Liakh who died in 2004.
Kiev Seven
K7’s business background began in 1992 through offshore companies, such as Berly Management, New Port Management. And Ometa 21st Century National Investment Fund, a multi-
These entities turned out to have other partners, such as Bohdan Hubsky. Who used to be the Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Ometa Inster insurance firm. With Grygoriy Surkis as Chairman of the Supervisory Board. In 1992, the group’s entities imported oil to Ukraine to sell it internally.
Slavutych Concern
In 1994, K7’s commercial entities set up Slavutych Industrial and Financial Concern. Which is a closed joint stock company. The multi-
According to some sources, more than 2,000 major clients were buying oil products supplied by Slavutych in 1998.
Dynamo Kiev
K7’s business grew and diversified. Slavutych Nafta, Slavutych Agro and Ukrainian Gas Complex CJSC began to develop individual profitable business lines. Later joined by Dynamo Kyiv Football Club, headed by Grygoriy Surkis (source: Ukrainianweek.com).
President Putin
Russian President Putin is the god father of Medvedchuk's daughter. Medvedchuk also ran the three largest television stations in Ukraine: UT-
Viktor Medvedchuk Net Worth
According to some sources his net worth is between US$ 460 million and US$ 800 million.
Private Jet
Medvedchuk owns a Dassault Falcon 900EX private jet with registration P4-
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The yacht at the De Vries yard in Makkum
Royal Romance was built at Feadship as Hull #1005
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Royal Romance
The 2008 CRN yacht Romance, with the same R in the logo.
Medvedchuk’s private jet, a Dassault Falcon with registration P4-
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Viktor Medvedchuk Private Jet
Inside The Yacht
As far as we know there are no interior photos of the yacht available. But these photos hereunder are of Medvedchuk’s previous yacht the CRN Romance. And probably give a good impression of the interior of Royal Romance.
The interior of the yacht Romance.
The dining room on board Medvedchuk’s yacht.
