- Vladimir Putin could have royal blood
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- Russian president Vladimir Putin has been a mystery almost
for everyone since moment of his election. He seemed to be a man with no
past, inspired by the symbol of the new epoch, but
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- deprived of historic roots. Research conducted by journalists
from the Russian city of Tver has become a sensation. It was discovered
that the parents of the Russian president came from the Kalininsky area
of the Tver region.
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- The president,s family tree is not traced before Putin,s
grandfather Spiridon Putin, who left Tver for St. Petersburg at the age
of 15. Vladimir Putin,s grandfather was a serious, reserved man of immaculate
honesty. Spiridon Putin became a good cook. He worked in fancy restaurants
in St.Petersburg before the revolution of 1917. Later, he was invited to
cook for Lenin himself. When Lenin passed away, Spiridon Putin started
working at one of Stalin,s dachas. Putin,s grandfather managed to survive
this horrid period of the Soviet history. When he retired, he lived and
cooked at a holiday camp of the Communist Party. Vladimir Putin describes
his grandfather as a man who liked remaining silent most of the time.
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- The researchers did not manage to trace the origin of
this last name Putin. The world-wide web knows only one Putin Vladimir
Vladimirovich, the Russian president. Therefore, using online search engines
is completely worthless in this quest. No other scientists of history and
no dictionary mention anything about the name Putin among tens of thousands
of other names.
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- On the other hand, there has recently been a surprising
fact discovered. Vladimir Putin looks like Prince Mikhail Tverskoy. They
both are not tall, with little hair, and similar noses. Is Putin a descendant
of the Tver prince? This hypothesis is gaining more and more support. The
name Putin is not mentioned among the Russian names. This means that the
name is of foreign origin.
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- The name Putin appeared recently, sometime in the middle
of the 19th century. All Putins originally came from the Putin clan of
the Tver region. Illegitimate offspring of noble families were often given
shortened names. For example, Russian writer Pnin was an illegitimate son
of Field Marshal Repnin. There have been many other such occasions: Betskoy
instead of Trubetskoy and Gribov instead of Griboyedov. The new names of
unofficial clan branches were formed by means of deduction: a syllable
was simply taken out of the origional name.
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- A book on the Tver region mentions the name of Putyanin,
a clan of Russian princes. This clan gave Russian many outstanding military
leaders, as well as artists, politicians, and priests. This is one of the
oldest clans in Russian history. If President Putin is a descendant of
the Putyatin clan, this means that Vladimir Putin is related to nearly
all the royal families of Europe.
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