A family of refugees from Kazakhstan settled at the former dacha of the Putin family near St. Petersburg

In St. Petersburg there is a fetishization of everything that was affected by the hand of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Enterprising tourist figures are already conducting excursions in Putin's places in St. Petersburg. From Russian citizens, for the opportunity to look at these places, they take 500 rubles, and from foreigners - $ 100, writes the magazine "Spark" .

The journey is built according to the simple scheme "Stages of the Great Way". First, the places related to Putin’s childhood are shown - house No. 2 in Baskovo Lane and a school located in a neighboring house, into which the future president ran without a coat in winter. The theme "Youth of the President" is practiced by the legal faculty of St. Petersburg State University. The dean of the faculty Nikolai Kropachev has long dreamed of opening several memorable boards on the building. In addition to Putin, three more leaders of Russia left these walls - Lenin, Kerensky and Tsarist Minister Sturmer.

Excursors are told about Putin's maturity in the so-called "Big House" on Litein (once there were Leningrad KGB, and now the FSB officers work) and Smolny, demonstrating the windows of the former presidential office on the ground floor.

However, in the vicinity of St. Petersburg there are also places related to the name of the current president of the Russian Federation, and has not yet mastered their tourism business. This, for example, is the Putin’s dacha on the outskirts of Tosno.

- In the country in Tosno Putin met his first love

Right at the railway line connecting two Russian capitals, there is a house on which a noticeable plate "Station, 71. Putin" is still hanging. Thirty years ago, she was nailed by the father of the current president Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin. It was here that the second president of the Russian Federation loved to ride a white "Zaporozhets". Putin won this car in the lottery, the publication notes.

Putins were acquired by Putin in Tosno Street in 1959 and lived in it in the warm season. Immediately, the future president played with peers in scouts, and later prepared for entrance exams at Leningrad State University. The inhabitants of neighboring houses still remember the Putin family perfectly. Anna Ivanovna Romanova, for example, sold milk to the presidential family from her cows.

“Putin’s house was like a summer house,” Anna Ivanovna recalls. “They lived in it in the summer, and constantly came in it in winter. Father Volodya, Vladimir Spiridonovich, constantly took milk from me, so we can say that I was their thrush. He also knew him well. A thin, painful woman. I remember very badly, Vladimir Spiridonovich carried her in the bathhouse with us with our hands with our hands with our hands with our arms. The neighbors were wonderful. "

Putin himself was the last time to see the neighbors on Station Street in the mid-1980s. The future president did not engage in the sale of a house after the death of his parents. His father left a power of attorney to a friend who lived in the neighborhood. For $ 3100, the Old House of the refugee from Kazakhstan lost to Nadezhda Pankova.

“We entered here in December 1999,” Nadezhda Ivanovna recalls. “The seller immediately told us that the son of the former owners of the house worked for a long time in the government of St. Petersburg, and now he was working in Moscow. Then we have just moved to Russia from Kazakhstan and have not yet heard the surname Putin. We did not pay special attention to recordings in the house book, where the current president and his parents were mentioned. On New Year's Eve, when the former inhabitant of this very house appeared on the TV screen, we realized whose inheritance we got. "

Now the house of N71 on Vokzalnaya Street looks wretched. Nadezhda Pankova has no money for repairs, and the neighbors reproach her that the presidential house, where, according to their thoughts, could open a museum, she was simply burned. “There was no such mess under Vladimir Spiridonovich,” Anna Romanova recalls. “There was an iron man. And the house painted every year and repaired him. And now in the direction of the Putin’s house and look ashamed - only rotten.”

According to Nadezhda Pankova, practically no things left from the Putin, after the housewarming she found. The collapsed chairs and a cracked mirror had to be thrown away. In addition, refugees from Kazakhstan for a long time melted a stove with notebooks found in the attic, the magazine notes.

“We suffered very much from the climate change. From 1999 to 2000, we experienced very poorly from 1999 to 2000,” Nadezhda Ivanovna recalls. “I burned notebooks in the stove without reading what it is written in them, although now they could be sold. Since the spring of 2000, people began to reach here as pilgrims. Even foreigners arrived. One American saw a student of the 193rd school. Leningrad, signed by Vladimir Putin, grabbed her and stated that she would take with her and began to offer money to me, but I did not take it. ”

“In addition to the plate with the number of the house, there is nothing left of the Putin, and it is necessary to remove it. The house book in which Putins are recorded, we handed over to the passport office so that no one bothers us,” Pankova said.

In the country in Tosno, Putin met his first love

Vera Fedorovna Brileva could be the first lady of the country today. But she did not think that Volodya Putin, whose cottage stood next to her house in a small town Tosno near Peter, would once become president.

Vera still lives in the city of Tosno. Her house on the street station, where she met Vova Putin, was demolished, in return, providing an apartment in the city center.

The husband of Vera, who is also called Vladimir, worked as a forester, but recently retired. Sasha’s son is almost 18 years old, he is studying at a technical school, Ole's daughter - 23. She works as a cartographer in St. Petersburg. Vera itself is already retired. At different times, she worked as a seamstress, a cleaner, and a saleswoman, and an employee of the Leningrad Knot of Special Relations.

Vera Fedorovna says that she and the future Russian president met in 1969, when Putins bought a cottage in Tosno. He was 16 years old, she was 14. The girl often visited the Putins at home.

She immediately liked his parents, and Volodya himself too. According to her, Vova was even short, but the girls just jumped on him: "Oh, Volodya! Ah, Volodya!" Something he probably attracted with his charm, she says.

Vera says that once the guys agreed to celebrate the New Year in the Putin house. Everyone danced, laughed. And suddenly someone said: "Let's play a bottle!" When Volodya spun the bottle, she pointed to faith. “Our kiss, however, was short. Suddenly it became so hot for me,” she recalls.