He is 88 years old. Her name is Vera Dmitriyevna Gurevich. He’s an ex teacher Russian. Any name, a profession like many others. But she could be the key figure to give the world hope that there guerra in Ukraine end? Perhaps, experts say. Because Vera she is not just any teacher. She was the teacher of Vladimir Putin. Indeed, more than a teacher. Almost one mamma acquired, in the difficult childhood of the Tsar. A “mother” that Putin has shown several times over the years to listen to. And that then she could persuade him to give up?
Putin and his teacher Vera
Vera Dmitriyevna Gurevich had an intense relationship with the Russian president during her school years, several international media write. She was a mother figure for the young Putin struggling with childhood psychological traumas. She guided him, as teacher-mother of pupil-son, away from poverty and towards education and success.
Childhood of the Tsar
Putin’s two older brothers died as children while their hometown Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) was ravaged by war. In the same years, Putin’s mother, Mariya Ivanovna, nearly died of starvation. She passed out from her hardship, she was placed among the piles of corpses along the streets where she remained until her awakening, when she found herself surrounded by the bodies of dead men, women and children. In the days of the future president’s childhood, his parents lived in a cold apartment in a building infested with parasites.
In his memoir on Putin, Gurevich recounts how a group of child thugs had a “bad influence” on young Vlad. The teacher revealed that at school, the future Tsar was “very alert, restless, with overflowing energy. He couldn’t sit still ». And he was always ready to fight if necessary.
In September 1964, the woman visited the building where Putin, then 11, lived. She realized that the little boy lived alone, all day without parental supervision. The teacher urged him: “Stop being a tramp, get busy with the school.” Putin replied that he could “have done all his homework within an hour” if he wanted to. There was the turning point.
The “putative” parents
Gurevich, along with Putin’s judo instructor and mentor, Anatoliy Rakhlin, became the two parental figures the boy needed. Having grown up, he would never forget what the two of them did for him.
Putin, now 69, seems determined to move forward at all costs with his plans in Ukraine. Some friends are begging his alleged mistress Alina Kabaeva to persuade him to end the conflict, but to no avail. Could his former teacher and guide be the answer the world is looking for?
Putin, about whose health there are increasingly worrying rumors, admitted that he still hears Mrs. Gurevich to ask her how she is doing. The two have been photographed together over the years, always in a familiar attitude, often greeting each other in a close embrace. The strength of their bond is undeniable, but how much influence does the woman really have on the president?
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