- Maria Ivanovna was Vladimir Putin’s mother as stated in his official biography, she survived the brutal German siege but eventually died in 1998 before her son became president.
- Reviews have been made concerning the family history of Russia’s president and former KGB officer, Vladimir Putin, following the assertion of Vera Putina who claims Putin is her estranged son.
- Many Years have passed and several journalists have lost their lives, yet Vera’s claim continues to linger on with many wondering if there is any iota of truth to it.
Maria Ivanovna Shelomova was the mother of a Russian political and former KGB intelligence officer currently serving as the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Maria reportedly lived during the brutal German siege. A time when grief knocked on houses and invade households uninvited; a difficult time that saw hunger befriend fear to the dismay of humans across Europe and indeed the world at large.
The war finally came to an end but cancer came calling years later and claimed Maria’s life on July 6, 1998, just around the time Putin first became president. As you would easily find, Vladimir Putin was first elected president in 1999. He served two consecutive terms leaving office in 2008, only to return in 2012. He amended the Russian constitution to allow him to maintain power until 2036.
Whilst Putin’s official biography considers Maria Ivanovna Shelomova as his mother, Vera Putina has been claiming that her lost child is Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin. This claim remains unproven but it has left many asking questions about the real mother of Vladimir Putin.
The Biography of Maria Ivanovna Shelomova
Maria Ivanovna Shelomova was born on October 17, 1911. She is from the Tver province in Zerechye, Russia. Maria grew up alongside her four brothers in the Turginosky district.
She got married at the age of seventeen to Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin in a union blessed by her parents. The pair were blessed with three children: Vladimir Putin, Albert Putin, and Maria. However, she lost two of them to the cold hands of death during the siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany’s forces.
From what we gathered, Maria Ivanovna Shelomova was a Norma factory worker while her husband was a conscript in the Soviet Navy, serving in the submarine fleet. Also, he was a member of the NKVD’s annihilation brigade during World War II.
After sustaining serious injuries in 1942, he was sent to serve in the regular army. Spiridonovich Putin died on the 2nd of August 1999. The circumstances of his death were not revealed but we can confirm he died barely a year after his wife Maria who died of cancer in July 1998.
Meet Vera Putina Who Claims to Be Putin’s Mother
The alleged mother of Putin was born on September 6, 1926, in a village near Ochyor, a small Russian town. She worked as a mechanic and agricultural machinery operator after 8 years of training. Vera then started advanced training which she completed in Tashkent.
During her period of training in her hometown, Vera met Paton Privalov and the pair started a relationship. When she became pregnant, she learned that Paton had been married all along. News of his official wife left her heartbroken as she returned to stay with her parents.
Vera birthed a boy child on October 7, 1950, and named him Vladimir but fondly called Vova. She never disclosed the identity of his father to him as she nursed hatred for Paton. Vera Putina later married Georgy Osepashvili, a Georgian man who was fulfilling his military duty near the dormitory she was staying in during her training at Tashkent.
Vera Claims She Gave Putin up for Adoption When He Was Nine Years Old
She settled in Metekhi village of Georgia with her husband and brought her illegitimate son to leave with them as he was staying with her parents at that time. Vladimir wasn’t accepted by her husband Georgy as they were poor at that time and couldn’t take on an extra mouth to feed.
Several heated arguments kept arising between the couple and she couldn’t put up with it anymore. So when Vladimir was nine years old, Vera Putina gave him to her grandparents who gave him up for adoption.
His foster parents were distant relatives of Vera’s parents who were childless: Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and Maria Ivanovna Putina. The couple moved to what was then Leningrad where he was registered with new authorities and given a new birth certificate with October 7, 1952, as his date of birth.
Other Facts That Suggest Vera Putina Could Be Vladimir Putin’s Mother
1. Results From Putina’s Maternity Test Were Never Released
Vera Putina stated that she had submitted her blood samples for a DNA test, however, the results from the test were never released.
According to Putina, she is convinced that Russian President Vladimir Putin is her estranged son the moment he appeared on her television screen in 1999.
While Vera’s DNA test results, as claimed, were never released, credible sources have it that the United States performed a DNA test on Vera Putina and confirmed that she is Putin’s mother.
2. Vladimir Knows More about His Father Than His Mother – Maria Ivanovna Shelomov
The President of Russia during an interview conducted by three Russian journalists—Nataliya Gevorkyan, Natalya Timakova, and Andrei Kolesnikov— in early 2000, said he knows more about his father than his mother.
He added that he comes from a very ordinary family and he described his father as a silent man. Vladimir’s reports from this interview contrast with his new review that his father was a courageous man who survived the world war.
How comes he knows very little about his mother, Maria Ivanovna Shelomov, who supposedly took care of him? And why is his story about his family background not consistent?
Read Also: Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin: Putin’s Father Survived WWI & WWII
3. Records from Metekhi School’s Archives Indicates That Vladimir Putin Was Registered from 1959 to 1960 as a Georgian
Journalists from the U.K’s Daily Telegraph found proof that a student named Vladimir Putin attended a nearby school where Vera claimed she raised Putin around 1959 and 1960.
Revealing a picture they took when he was four years old, Vera Putina said that he studied in the village primary school until the 4th grade.
Additionally, Putin started school in Leningrad around 1960. According to Putina, she gave him to foster parents that same year.
4. Vera Putina Was Visited by Russia Secret Service
In 1999, 73 years old Vera Putina disclosed that she was visited by some people who took away all her family pictures and warned her against telling anyone about it.
She also claimed that residents of Metekhi who recognize Vladimir as her son have since then received death threats and are scared to voice out and corroborate her story.
5. The Mysterious Death of Russian and Italian Journalist
Italian journalist Antonio Russo who investigated Vera Putina’s story was shot dead near Tbilisi. Also, Russian investigative journalist Artyom Borovik’s plane crash coincided with the documentary he was making about Putin’s childhood: it included a report about Vera Putina.
However, after the deaths of oil executives and a journalist related to the reports of Vera Putin, the story gained traction in Turkey as it was published in some Georgian newspapers.
In all, it is believed in many quarters that Vera is the biological mother of the Russian president. Be that as it may, it is not something that has been proven beyond all doubts.
