A hundred million girl. Who is Katya Rosenberg, who quarreled between the Durovs and the former top manager of VKontakte. The media found evidence that the dreadful fool sympathized with the wife of the top manager of VKontakte (photo) Rosenberg VK
Published on 21.09.17 10:03Ekaterina Rozenberg confirmed that Anton Rosenberg, the former technical director of VKontakte, writes about her in his scandalous publication, and the media studied her page in VK.
ex-deputy technical director social network On VKontakte, Anton Rosenberg published an article on the Medium website in which he accused the founders and former owners of the social network, the Durov brothers, of betrayal. In his publication, Rosenberg talks about his friendship with his older brother, Nikolai Durov, as well as the history of the labor conflict that occurred in the brothers' new business, Telegram. According to Rosenberg, he was fired from Telegram because of a quarrel with Nikolai, which occurred for personal reasons: supposedly Durov Sr. fell in love with his girlfriend, and idhumkz now a wife - Katya Rosenberg.
As a result, Rosenberg left the project with a scandal, and now Telegram has sued him for the purpose. In turn, Anton is trying to sue the company for compensation for unfair dismissal.
Rosenberg's article begins with a story about who Nikolai Durov is: they studied together, participated in mathematical Olympiads and went to training camps in the army. The author of the article claims that Durov Sr. has always been a very mathematically gifted person, but strange and helpless in everyday life. According to him, before last days Nikolai lived with his mother, could hardly take care of himself and considered himself a cat.
"On the St. Petersburg State University forum, he had the nickname K.O.T., which later turned into the nickname Cat, which eventually replaced the name. Moreover, Kolya actually considers himself a cat, calls his mother Big Cat, loves to meow on the street and in restaurants and calls for this […] However, everyone in the company had long been accustomed to such cute eccentricity and did not pay attention to it, jokes about cats, like this one, also repeated many times, no longer surprised anyone, "Rosenberg writes.
At the same time, Rosenberg learned that Nikolai Durov had long been in love with his girlfriend, who later became his wife. At the same time, one of the founders of VKontakte showed her signs of attention behind his back. A quarrel between bosom friends occurred just after the explanation.
In the photo: on the left Nikolai Durov, Anton Rozenberg
In an interview for Roem.ru, Pavel Durov denied Rosenberg's words and called him crazy.
"I heard from his family that the man suffers from mental illness. I would not like to comment on this story at length in this regard," he said.
In turn, Ekaterina Rosenberg's wife, in a commentary to RBC, fully confirmed her husband's version.
"The article is about me, yes. I read the article and agree with its content," she said.
Anton Rozenberg claims that in January 2017, Ekaterina worked for the same company Telegraph LLC. Prior to that, she worked in the VKontakte office. Several photographs taken on New Year's corporate party social networks in December 2016, she poses as a catwoman.
It is noteworthy that it was after this New Year's party - in January 2017 - that Anton Rosenberg found out that Nikolai Durov fell in love with Ekaterina Rosenberg.
Medialeaks journalists studied the girl’s page on the VKontakte social network and noted that if you look closely at the photos, you can see that in 2016 and before, Nikolai Durov constantly liked the girl’s pictures.
In turn, the wall of Nikolai Durov VK himself is replete with memes, photographs and quotes about cats.
Is it coincidental that the appearance on new year party Ekaterina Rozenberg in a cat costume and her husband’s quarrel with Nikolai Durov is unknown, but, as the former deputy technical director, and then the technical director of VK, hinted in his article, the business interests of the Durov brothers may suffer because of this quarrel, sums up the publication.
And the Durovs in illegal dismissal, as well as the latter's harassment of his wife. In addition, Rosenberg said that Telegraph LLC, allegedly controlled by Pavel Durov, wants to recover 100 million rubles from him, with which he categorically disagrees.
“A lot of game; perhaps provocation, perhaps schizophrenia. I can confirm that I have not filed any lawsuits anywhere, ”the publication quotes the words.
“In general, you can refute every second phrase, but I don’t see the point. This is schizophasia, ”concluded Durov.
early years
“About the lawsuit for 100 million rubles for indicating the place of work on Facebook, I will describe in detail below. In the meantime, be patient and read the story of how I was friends with Nikolai Durov since childhood, was the technical director of VKontakte, and not only,” Anton Rozenberg begins his publication.
As follows from the post, in 2007, Rosenberg got a job at VKontakte, which was facilitated by a long-standing friendship with Nikolai Durov, as well as programming skills that attracted the attention of the creator of the social network and younger brother Nikolai Pavel Durov.
Rosenberg claims that he became the deputy technical director, that is, Nikolai, and together they “were engaged in the administration of all equipment, setting up new servers, load balancing and disaster recovery, protection against DDoS attacks and even fixing php code, and sometimes developing new services".
In 2012, the development of the Telegra.ph project began, which eventually resulted in the popular Telegram messenger. According to Rosenberg, the original name legal entity they didn’t change it - it remained Telegraph LLC.
All the developers of the engines were transferred there, including Nikolai, so Rosenberg was waiting for a promotion to the technical director of VKontakte.
After the dismissal of Pavel Durov from VKontakte in 2014, Rosenberg also quit. “But with the Telegram team, my wife and I continued to be friends and communicate, several times joined “family” trips (developers and their families): to England, to a dacha in Finland,” writes the author of the publication.
However, in 2016, Pavel again decided to cooperate with Rosenberg and invited him to work as director of special areas at Telegram. Rosenberg notes that he continued to communicate closely with Nikolai Durov, went to the cinema with him and played board games.
The essence of the conflict
According to Rosenberg, “everything changed” on January 7, 2017, when he suddenly found out that Nikolai Durov secretly hates him, how he is so in love with Anton’s girlfriend and future wife Ekaterina. After Rosenberg told Nikolai everything he thought about him, the elder Durov turned off his access at work.
Rosenberg claims that Pavel Durov tried to smooth out sharp corners and make sure that Anton and Nikolai did not intersect within the office, but in the end he made a choice in favor of his brother and suggested that Rosenberg write a statement on own will. He refused.
“I’m sorry for Nikolai, but why should I lose my favorite job because of his actions, because of a personal conflict in which he was entirely to blame? In addition, once I was left without interesting work- because of their principles and devotion to Paul and Nicholas. And I absolutely did not want to lose my job, the team with which I had worked for many years, to break my career because of Nikolai, ”said Anton Rozenberg.
After refusing to resign, Rosenberg was charged with 19 charges of systematic absenteeism, which he intends to use in court, as he considers them to be fabricated.
As a result, Rosenberg was fired, in his words, "not even paying back wage arrears, not to mention last year's bonus." Then he decided to go to court with a claim for wrongful dismissal.
After a preliminary hearing on Rosenberg's claim, Telegraph LLC, represented by its CEO Stepanov, filed a counterclaim for 100 million rubles. on the recovery of damages caused by the disclosure of trade secrets. According to Rosenberg, according to the text of the lawsuit, he did not understand what specific information was disclosed to him.
“I don’t know why Pavel decided to bring the conflict to such a stage, and what kind of reaction was expected from me, but this was the last straw, and I decided to describe everything in as much detail as possible, dotting all the “i”. I have nothing to be ashamed of in this whole story, ”Rozenberg concludes his publication, pointing to the fact that Telegram Messenger LLP and Telegraph LLC are closely connected, which means that Pavel Durov controls both of them in one way or another.
Pavel Durov himself stated that he is not the owner of Telegraph LLC and has nothing to do with the lawsuit for 100 million rubles. In addition, he stated that he "heard from his family" that Rosenberg was suffering from mental illness.
When asked if he really fired Anton Rosenberg for absenteeism, Durov replied that "he could not fire a person who did not work for me."
It was from the window of Rosenberg's office that Pavel Durov and Ilya Perekopsky threw five thousandth bills during the city day, Anton himself dissuaded them from this.
“On January 7, 2017, I found out that this person, with whom I have been friends since childhood, whom I have taken care of since school, olympiads and military training, this quiet nerd, similar to the hero of the Big Bang Theory series, whom I have respected all my life for intelligence and erudition, adherence to principles and honesty - secretly hates me, because he is in love with my girlfriend and future wife and shows signs of attention to her behind my back. At first, she took this for friendly gestures, then she did not dare to tell, because she knew that we had been friends since childhood, and even worked together. In addition, she herself, shortly before that, got a job in the same company. This betrayal, meanness and hypocrisy were inexpressible game for me, and I, of course, immediately told Nikolai everything that I think about this. Then Nikolai turned off my access at work. I had nothing else to talk to him about,” writes Rosenberg.
Gradually, Rosenberg began to be squeezed out of the company, but he refused to quit of his own free will, and then the actual general director of Telegraph LLC Alexander Stepanov collected 19 facts of absenteeism, for each of which Anton had to give written explanations.
At that moment, Rosenberg noticed that the entire history of his messages from the moment the service was launched until February 14, 2017 was deleted from the Telegram servers: he suspected that Nikolay Durov personally did this, since he wrote the code for the text-engine engine, but Pavel explained this "buggy reindexing".
In the end, Rosenberg said that he was fired without any compensation, and therefore he sued to have the dismissal declared illegal. A preliminary hearing on his claim took place on 8 August. Then he learned that the day before, Alexander Stepanov, representing Telegraph LLC, filed a counterclaim against him, demanding compensation in the amount of 100 million rubles.
Pavel Durov himself has already commented on Rosenberg's story to the Vc portal. According to him, he did not file any lawsuits “A lot of game; perhaps provocation, perhaps schizophrenia,” he said of the Rosenberg material. Durov claims that none of the developers of the Telegram messenger is employed by Telegraph LLC or other Russian companies. Moreover, in a conversation with the Meduza portal, Durov said that he does not own Telegraph LLC, and this company used to be engaged in “parsing Russian-language spam” by former VKontakte moderators. According to him, Rosenberg had nothing to do with the Telegram messenger team.
Petersburger Ekaterina Rozenberg confirmed in a comment to reporters that it was she who was discussed in the post of the former technical director of VKontakte Anton Rosenberg and her husband. According to him, it was the girl who caused his quarrel with the Durov brothers and litigation for tens of millions of rubles. On her VKontakte page, we found circumstantial evidence that this story could be at least partly true.
The former deputy technical director of VK Nikolai Durov, Anton Rosenberg, published a large article on the Medium website. He accused the Durov brothers, the founders and former owners of the social network, of betrayal. In the article, he talks about a long friendship with his older brother, Nikolai Durov, and then about the history of a labor conflict that happened already in the brothers' new business, Telegram. According to Rosenberg, he was fired from Telegram because of a quarrel with Nikolai, for personal reasons. Allegedly, Durov Sr. fell in love with his girlfriend, and now his wife, Katya Rosenberg, showed signs of attention to her, and hated Anton.
As a result, the Durovs and Rosenberg parted badly. And now the Telegraph company has filed a lawsuit against Rosenberg to recover 100 million from him for disclosing trade secrets, and he, in turn, is trying to sue the company for compensation for unfair dismissal.
Anton Rosenberg
Rosenberg's huge article begins with a story about who Nikolai Durov is, with whom they studied together, participated in mathematical Olympiads and even went to training camps in the army. According to the author, Durov Sr. has always been a very gifted mathematical person, but strange and helpless in everyday life. Until his last years, he lived with his mother, hardly took care of himself (for example, he ate porridge with bugs without noticing it). And besides, he considered himself a cat.
On the St Petersburg University forum, he had the nickname K.O.T., which later turned into the nickname Kot, which eventually replaced the name. Moreover, Kolya actually considers himself a cat, calls his mother Big Cat, loves to meow on the street and in restaurants and encourages others to do the same. […] However, everyone in the company had long been accustomed to such cute eccentricity and did not pay attention to it, jokes about cats, like this one, also repeated many times, no longer surprised anyone.
Rosenberg says that the Durovs and he and his girlfriend often rested in the same company, were friends. After the departure of Pavel Durov, and with him Nikolai, he also left the company, informally helped Pavel in the Telegram startup, including illegally transporting servers from continental Europe to London.
And then, Rosenberg writes, he learned that Nikolai Durov had long been in love with his girlfriend, who later became his wife, and showed her signs of attention behind his back. After the explanation, Durov Sr. and Rosenberg quarreled.
At first, she took this for friendly gestures, then she did not dare to tell, because she knew that we had been friends since childhood, and even worked together. In addition, she herself, shortly before that, got a job in the same company. This betrayal, meanness and hypocrisy were inexpressible game for me, and I, of course, immediately told Nikolai everything that I think about this. Then Nikolai turned off my access at work.
Formally, at that moment (in January 2017), Anton Rozenberg worked for the Russian Telegraph LLC. In the article, he writes that this company is associated with Telegram. After his dismissal, he sued the employer in order to receive compensation, and then the Telegraph filed a counterclaim for 100 million. By showing the court screenshots of official correspondence, Rosenberg allegedly caused losses by revealing a trade secret. Anton himself considers the accusations absurd.
Pavel Durov, in an interview with Roem, denied the words of Rosenberg, and called him crazy.
I heard from his family that the man was suffering from mental illness. In this regard, I would not like to comment on this story at length.
However, Rosenberg's wife Ekaterina, in a commentary to RBC, fully confirmed her husband's version.
The article is about me, yes. I have read the article and agree with its content.
She is not yet ready to give a more detailed comment. Little is known about Ekaterina Rosenberg, nee Volkova. Therefore, we looked at her VK profile to understand what kind of person she is and whether Nikolai Durov could really be in love with her.
According to Anton Rozenberg, in January 2017, Ekaterina worked in the same Telegraph LLC company, and before that, judging by the photos on her page, she worked in the VKontakte office, in the same place as Anton himself. Ekaterina willingly takes pictures.
She is interested in reading, philosophy, goes in for sports. The profile has photos during aerobics classes.
Ekaterina travels a lot - both in Europe, and in warm countries, and in Russia. Photos from different trips appear on the page 2-3 times a year.
In several pictures taken at the VK New Year corporate party in December 2016, she appears as a catwoman. With a lightsaber.
Or no sword.
Just after this New Year's party, according to Anton Rosenberg, in early January 2017, he found out that Nikolai Durov fell in love with Ekaterina Rosenberg. If you look closely at the photographs, you will notice that in 2016 and earlier, Nikolai Durov constantly liked almost all the pictures of the girl in a row.
And photos from the gym, and VK memes.
And portraits.
And, of course, photos in a catwoman costume.
There are really a lot of them. It is not known whether Ekaterina Rosenberg's appearance at the New Year's party in a cat costume and her husband's quarrel with Nikolai Durov coincided in time. But, as the former deputy technical director, and then the technical director of VK, hinted in his article, the business interests of the Durov brothers may suffer because of this quarrel.
In addition to a fascinating melodramatic line, Rosenberg's article contains statements that may raise questions for Telegraph LLC and Pavel Durov as the owner of Telegram from the tax authorities and Roskomnadzor. He hints that Durov is the real owner of Telegraph LLC and this company specifically shows losses in order not to pay taxes, and also carelessly conducts document management. At the same time, according to Rosenberg, Pavel leads a luxurious lifestyle and actually owns expensive real estate and cars.
One hundred million - this is 1/5 of the cost of Pavel's apartment in the residential complex "The Fifth Element", located on the shore of a pond in the center of Primorsky Victory Park on Krestovsky Island in St. Petersburg (500 million rubles). On December 9, 2011, riot police came to this apartment to pick him up. Apparently, it was also decided to make Telegraph-Telegram there. Pavel's avatar was made in it, on June 12, 2011, on the Day of Russia.
Rosenberg claims that the apartment still actually belongs to Durov, since he transferred it to his mother. In addition, he mentions a white Maybach for 13.5 million, private jet flights, rental medieval castle and other expenses. Durov denies that he owns an expensive apartment or car.
No, neither I nor my relatives own apartments in the Fifth Element residential complex or similar cars. I think this is checked by all sorts of registries.
According to RBC, the British company Telegram Messenger LLP, which manages the Telegram messenger, is owned in equal shares by offshore Telegraph Inc. and Dogged Labs Ltd. Pavel Durov owns 75% of the company through these offshore companies. The same Telegraph Inc. also owns the Russian Telegraph LLC. Claims, published by Anton Rozenberg, signed CEO LLC "Telegraph" Alexander Stepanov. Durov denies a direct connection between Telegraph LLC and Telegram Messenger LLP. In an interview with Meduza, he stated that the companies are not in "any" relationship.
In June 2017, Roskomnadzor demanded that the company that manages the Telegram messenger provide data to be entered into the register of information distributors, otherwise it will be blocked. At first, Durov refused, but: all the information for this is in the public domain. Some saw in this the defeat of Paul and a willingness to compromise, others believe that nothing will change.
The former technical director of VKontakte, Anton Rosenberg, who, following Pavel Durov, left to work on Telegram, complained about illegal dismissal. Rosenberg had been friends with Nikolai Durov (Pavel's older brother) since childhood and found out that a friend was courting his girlfriend. After his dismissal, Rosenberg went to court for compensation, but a counterclaim was filed against him for 100 million rubles - for the disclosure of trade secrets and damage to the company. Pavel Durov called Rosenberg's statement "schizophasia".
Anton Rozenberg, former technical director of VKontakte, said in a blog on the Medium website that he had been friends with Pavel Durov's older brother Nikolai since childhood. They met in 1993, together they won mathematics olympiads and went to military training camps.
Nikolai Durov and Anton Rozenberg (first two, left to right)
Rosenberg was one of the first users of VKontakte, and after another detailed report, the Durov brothers offered him the position of system administrator. Anton became one of the key employees of VKontakte, TJ said, citing his sources. It was from the window of Rosenberg's office that Pavel Durov and Ilya Perekopsky threw five thousandth bills into the crowd in 2013.
I tried to dissuade them from this idea, understanding the childishness of the action and the possible negative media consequences (shortly before that, Pavel first appeared in public, donating a million dollars to Wikipedia). But it was not possible to convince them, I refused complicity, but I was the only photographer who filmed what was happening first from the inside, and then from the street
Anton Rosenberg.
According to Anton, even before leaving VKontakte, Durov began working on the Telegra.ph project, which was renamed Telegram. The office of Telegraph LLC, founded in 2012, was located on the lower floor of the Singer House, many employees did not know what it was different companies writes Rosenberg.
After the departure of Nikolai Durov from VKontakte to Telegraph, Anton took over his position as technical director. After the dismissal of Pavel Durov, Rosenberg left after him, and in 2016 got a job in the Telegram project.
In the spring of 2016, Pavel needed people for a new direction - the fight against spam, and he invited me to work. So I became the director of special areas
Anton Rosenberg.
In January 2017, Rosenberg had a conflict with Nikolai Durov - Anton found out that a childhood friend was trying to court his wife.
This betrayal, meanness and hypocrisy were for me an inexpressible game, and, naturally, I immediately told Nikolai everything that I think about this. Then Nikolai turned off my access at work. I had nothing else to talk to him about.
Anton Rosenberg.
For two months, the Durov brothers did not discuss the situation with him, and Anton continued to work at Telegraph LLC. According to Rosenberg, he had a confidential conversation with Pavel and he admitted that his brother was wrong, but stated that he was a valuable employee.
Pavel gathered his strength and during the next conversation, on April 11, gave me an ultimatum: if I do not quit of my own free will, the formal CEO of the company will be tasked with my dismissal
Anton Rosenberg.
Rosenberg refused to write a statement and was fired for absenteeism. Anton went to court with a claim and demand for compensation. Telegraph LLC filed a counterclaim against him and demanded compensation in the amount of 100 million rubles for the disclosure of trade secrets.
Judging by the materials of the lawsuit, the indication of the employer "Telegram Messenger" on Rosenberg's Facebook page is considered a trade secret. Telegram Messenger LLP, founded by Durov, did not renew the contract with Telegraph LLC. Anton Rosenberg was accused of this and demanded compensation for lost profits - 100 million rubles.
A small detail: both companies are part of the same project, and the same person, Pavel Durov, is the beneficiary of both
Anton Rosenberg.
Rosenberg said he did not know why Durov decided to bring the conflict with him to this stage. Pavel stated in a comment that none of the Telegram developers work at Telegraph LLC.
Lots of game; perhaps provocation, perhaps schizophrenia. I can confirm that I have not filed any claims anywhere. None of the developers of the Telegram messenger is employed by this OOO [Telegraph] or other Russian companies. In general, you can refute every second phrase, but I don’t see the point. It's schizophasia
Pavel Durov.
Rozenberg says that Telegraph employees have recently been transferred to another legal entity. However, during the meeting on his case, the LLC lawyer confirmed to the judge that all the employees who signed the acts work for Telegraph.
