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Tovstik custody dispute intensifies after ex-wife alleges use of intimate photos
Elena Tovstik accused her ex-husband Roman of using intimate photos during their custody case in a Moscow court.
The former couple have six children and are disputing where they should live and how each parent can see them.
They disagree over whether their 10-year-old daughter wanted to leave with her father after a recent court hearing; Roman says she did, while Elena has accused him of taking her from school without her agreement.
Elena said Roman’s lawyer showed the photos in court to discredit her, and that the judge refused to accept them as evidence.
Roman says Elena is preventing him from seeing the children, while she says he breached the court’s contact arrangements.
The court hearing was postponed until October 23, according to one account of the proceedings.
Elena said the dispute and the photos’ circulation on social media could affect the children, while the court case over their living arrangements and contact continues.
Elena Tovstik accused her former husband, Roman Tovstik, of using intimate photographs of her during a court dispute over their children.
She said Roman’s lawyer presented the photographs at a hearing in Moscow on October 16, but the court refused to add them to the case materials.
Roman disputed Elena’s account of their custody conflict and said their 10-year-old daughter Alice wanted to live with him.
The hearing over where the children should live and how they can see each parent was postponed until October 23.
The former couple have six children, and both have made allegations about the other’s conduct and the children’s welfare.
- Who
- Elena and Roman Tovstik, former spouses with six children.
- What
- Elena accused Roman of using intimate photographs in their custody dispute. Roman has disputed her account of events involving their daughter and contact with the children.
- When
- The court hearing took place on October 16, 2026; the articles were published on October 17 and 18.
- Where
- The Presnensky District Court in Moscow.
- Why
- The former spouses are disputing where their children should live and arrangements for contact with them.
Elena Tovstik
Roman Tovstik
Intimate photographs
Elena Tovstik
Elena said Roman’s lawyer presented intimate photographs of her at the hearing to discredit her; she said the court refused to include them.
Roman Tovstik
Roman’s account of the photographs was not reported in the sources.
Alice’s departure from school
Elena Tovstik
Elena said Roman took Alice from school and accused him of pressuring the girl.
Roman Tovstik
Roman said Alice had asked him to pick her up and that she wanted to live with him.
Contact with the children
Elena Tovstik
Elena said Roman violated the court’s contact arrangements.
Roman Tovstik
Roman said he was being denied contact with the children and that they missed him.
Elena said Roman took 10-year-old Alice from school and accused him of putting pressure on the girl; Roman denied this.
A hearing on the children’s residence and contact arrangements took place at the Presnensky District Court in Moscow and was postponed.
Roman made public comments about the dispute, saying Alice wanted to live with him and that he was being denied contact with the children.
Elena publicly accused Roman of using intimate photographs of her at the October 16 hearing; she said the court refused to include them.
- Children
- Six: ages 19, 16, 13, 10, 5 and 2
- Court
- Presnensky District Court, Moscow
- Hearing
- October 16, 2026
- Next hearing
- October 23, 2026
- Daughter at center of recent dispute
- Alice, 10
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What people are saying
The court refused to add these materials, but the very fact of this act has no justification.
Alice clearly and plainly said in court that she wants to live with me.
Right now I am completely deprived of communication with the children, and they are completely deprived of their father. They are eager to see me, they miss me.
Both parents love the children. Each in their own way.