Will the Real Vladimir Please Stand Up? Vladimir Lenin's grandson, Paulician Vlad "Sankt Paul - Павел І" Putin declares Sochi Winter Olympics open at captivating ceremony -- Friday 7 February 2014 19.08 GMT Allegedly, Putin "himself" presided over the entire event, stepping forward only to sound the starting gun for the Games. -- "I declare the 22nd Winter Olympic Games open," he (stuntie) said http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/feb/07/putin-sochi-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony A stunt double is a type of body double, specifically a skilled replacement used for dangerous film or video sequences, in movies and television. Stunt doubles may be used in cases where an actor's physical condition precludes a great amount of physical activity (such as when the actor is too old to perform extended dubs choreography), or when an actor is contractually prohibited from performing stunts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt_double The Doctors' plot (дело врачей, врачи-убийцы "doctors-killers") in 1952--53, when a group of prominent Moscow doctors was accused of being conspiratorial assassins of Soviet leaders. A few weeks after death of Stalin, new Soviet leadership stated a lack of evidence and case was dropped. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot On the early morning hours of 1 March 1953, after an all-night dinner and a movie Stalin arrived at his Kuntsevo residence some 15 km west of Moscow centre with interior minister Lavrentiy Beria and future premiers Georgy Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev where he retired to his bedroom to sleep. At dawn, Stalin did not emerge from his room. Stalin's grave in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis Although his guards thought that it was odd for him not to rise at his usual time, they were under strict orders not to disturb him and left him alone the entire day. At around 10 p.m. he was discovered by Peter Lozgachev, the Deputy Commandant of Kuntsevo, who entered his bedroom to check up on him and recalled the scene of Stalin lying on his back on the floor of his room beside his bed wearing pyjama bottoms and an undershirt with his clothes soaked in stale urine. A frightened Lozgachev asked Stalin what happened to him, but all he could get out of him was unintelligible responses that sounded like "Dzhhhhh." Lozgachev used the bedroom telephone where he frantically called a few party officials telling them that Stalin may have had a stroke and asked them to send good doctors to the Kuntsevo residence immediately. Lavrentiy Beria was informed and arrived a few hours afterwards, and the doctors only arrived in the early morning of 2 March in which they changed Stalin's bedclothes and tended to him. The bedridden Stalin died four days later, on 5 March 1953, at the age of 74, and was embalmed on 9 March. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Stalin#Death_and_aftermath The Kuntsevo Dacha was Stalin's personal residence, where he lived for the last two decades of his life and died on 5 March 1953, although he also spent much time inside the Kremlin, where he possessed living quarters next to his offices. It was there that he played host to such high-profile guests as Winston Churchill and Mao Zedong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuntsevo_Dacha Vladimir Putin's paternal grandfather, Spiridon Ivanovich Putin (1879--1965), was employed at Vladimir Lenin's dacha at Gorki as a cook, and after Lenin's death in 1924, he continued to work for Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya. He would later cook for Joseph Stalin when the Soviet leader visited one of his dachas in the Moscow region. Spiridon later was employed at a dacha belonging to the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at which the young Putin would visit him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (Светла́на Ио́сифовна Аллилу́ева 28 February 1926 -- 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the only daughter of Joseph Stalin. In 1967, she caused an international furore when she defected and became a naturalised citizen of the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alliluyeva William Wesley Peters (June 12, 1912 -- July 17, 1991) was a noted architect and engineer, apprentice to and protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright. Peters was married to Svetlana Alliluyeva http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wesley_Peters Olgivanna Lloyd Wright (1898 - 1985) wife of Frank Lloyd Wright, had significant influence in his life and work, due to her extensive Theosophical associations, pupil and devotee of G. I. Gurdjieff. She was a Serb Montenegrin dancer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olgivanna_Lloyd_Wright Paulicians (Armenian: Պաւղիկեաններ) Adoptionist sect, Gnostic and quasi Manichaean Christian. According to medieval Byzantine sources, the name was derived from 3rd century Bishop of Antioch, Paul of Samosata. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_of_Samosata FAIR USE

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