OREANDA-NEWS Russian jazzman Igor Butman said that the Japanese ambassador was at his wedding with 27-year-old assistant Anna Lvova.

«In any case, despite all our political differences, we still have human relations. We understand that we have a long life. One mood today, another tomorrow. If the mood is different tomorrow, we need to strengthen our friendship so that there are no more things that we are going through now», Igor Butman told in an interview with the Russian portal News.Ru.

According to the saxophonist, the wife of the Thai ambassador to Russia was also at his wedding. The ambassador himself was supposed to be there, but he left, the king summoned him.

«By the way, they really liked Stas Mikhailov. And in general, they liked all the performers very much», Butman noted, recalling the performance of Russian pop stars who were invited as guests.

On April 1, 2022, Jazzman Igor Butman married a native of Chelyabinsk, who is 32 years younger than him. The wedding took place in St. Petersburg. The musician proposed to his beloved in the summer of 2021 at a music festival. Anna posted her first joint photo with the jazzman on VKontakte back in 2017.