{"id":334174,"date":"2025-08-10T22:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334174\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:02:23","slug":"vladimir-putins-brute-father-gouged-out-his-mothers-eye-with-a-pitchfork-in-a-fit-of-rage-new-book-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334174\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin’s brute father gouged out his mother’s eye with a pitchfork ‘in a fit of rage’, new book claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vladimir Putin<\/a>‘s father gouged out his mother’s eye with a pitchfork, it was revealed.<\/p>\n

The violent attack came when his mother Maria was just 17 and as a result of the incident in which she lost her eye, Vladimir senior was ordered to marry her.<\/p>\n

The attack was ‘in a fit of rage’ according to independent news outlet Proekt.<\/p>\n

The bizarre story has emerged as a new book – The Tsar in Person. How Vladimir Putin Fooled Us All – details the Kremlin despot’s life, and was highlighted by Proekt.<\/p>\n

Putin’s father arrived with male friends when Maria – known as Marusya – was home alone in her village in Tver region in 1928.<\/p>\n

‘Marusya didn’t want to let them in,’ said an account by villager Anfisa Kormilitsyna.<\/p>\n

This apparently enraged Putin’s father.<\/p>\n

‘They took the pitchfork that was standing by the fence and started breaking down the gate.’<\/p>\n

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Vladimir Putin’s (pictured) father gouged out his mother’s eye with a pitchfork<\/p>\n

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The violent attack came when his mother Maria (pictured) was just 17 and as a result of the incident in which she lost her eye<\/p>\n

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Putin’s wild father (pictured) was notorious for terrorising teenage girls in his village<\/p>\n

‘She got scared, ran out of the house, and raced up to the fence.<\/p>\n

‘And Volodka [Vladimir senior, Putin’s father] at that moment broke through the gate with the pitchfork and hit Marusya right in the face.<\/p>\n

‘In short, he accidentally gouged out her eye.<\/p>\n

‘He took her to the hospital right away.<\/p>\n

‘There, Marusya’s eye was removed.<\/p>\n

‘For a girl in those days, this was a disgrace: who would marry a defective woman?<\/p>\n

‘So Marusya’s mother threatened Volodka: if you don’t marry, I’ll put you on trial.<\/p>\n

‘So they got married.<\/p>\n

‘Marusya was very embarrassed about her glass eye later, never looked you in the face when talking, and tilted her head to the side.’<\/p>\n

She revealed Putin’s wild father was notorious for terrorising teenage girls in his village.<\/p>\n

‘He liked to lift up girls’ skirts and tie them in a knot over their heads,’ said Anfisa.<\/p>\n

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Vladimir Putin’s father Vladimir, aged 21<\/p>\n

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Vladimir Putin pictured with his parents Vladimir and Maria before leaving USSR to the German Democratic Republic<\/p>\n

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Vladimir Putin with mother Maria Putina<\/p>\n

This was so the village boys ‘could get a better look at the girl’s knickers,’ said co-author Roman Badanin.<\/p>\n

‘Putin’s mother had been one-eyed since her youth because the other eye had been put out with a pitchfork in a fit of rage by the father of the future Russian leader,’ said Proekt.<\/p>\n

Yet Putin has only spoken about how his parents were perfect.<\/p>\n

His mother was over 40 by the time she gave birth to the future spy and dictator, triggering rumours that he was adopted or the child of a lover.<\/p>\n

Last year he recounted: ‘Never \u2014 I want to emphasise this \u2014 never did I see my father drunk.<\/p>\n

‘That never happened at all. I’m not even talking about my mother.<\/p>\n

‘I never heard a single swear word from him. Not one. Well, I’m not even talking about my mother here either.’<\/p>\n

The authors accused Putin of covering up his personal life.<\/p>\n

‘In Russia, lies and inventions have replaced truth and history,’ said a story about the new book in Proekt.<\/p>\n

‘Real biographies have been forbidden and erased from memory, the press destroyed. Since then, one can lie about absolutely anything.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin‘s father gouged out his mother’s eye with a pitchfork, it was revealed. The violent attack came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,12,333,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-334174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-vladimir-putin","11":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115006730826236943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}