Book shows Putin at his best (2002) Russian journalist Oleg Blotsky holds his book entitled "Vladimir Putin: Life Story" during a news conference in Moscow, January 21, 2002. He is fearless, altruistic, steel-willed, hospitable, unbelievably hardy, unpretentious and warm -- and he has lost none of these qualities since becoming Russia's president. It is a scrupulously unbiased snapshot of Vladimir Putin if you believe the author of the first volume of a Kremlin-backed trilogy on Putin's life, written in the unmistakable style the Soviets once reserved for Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. "I do not think it is a eulogy. I simply conveyed what people (who met Putin) said," Oleg Blotsky told a news conference on Monday as he posed for photos with his "Vladimir Putin". The book, complete with a genealogical tree back to the beginning of the 18th century and a chapter dedicated to Putin's ancestors, spans from his birth to the start of his career as a KGB spy. Putin contributed to the work with extensive interviews to result is a selection of memories by Putin's friends and acquaintances who hold nothing but the warmest recollections of him. The only person in the book who does not heap praise on the president is Putin himself, who is characteristically humble. Praise bestowed on the Kremlin leader ranges from young judoist Putin fighting "like a snow leopard" to many years later his being visibly moved when decorated war veterans in the Kremlin stood up in salute as he entered the hall. It opens with the Kremlin munificently answering an old woman's plea -- addressed in a letter to "V. V. Putin, the Kremlin, Moscow" -- to help erect a decent tombstone on the grave of Putin's first teacher. One account portrays Putin as a man who would stop at nothing to win a fight. "He would scratch, bite, snatch tufts of hair, do anything to avoid being humiliated in any way," an old friend said. But young Putin is also an ordinary boy, frightened by a looming visit to the dentist. The book is written in simple easy-to-read Russian. Blotsky said neither Putin nor any other Kremlin official ever sought to censor his work or steer it in a specific direction. Putin only read the book when it hit shop shelves last week, he said. The book's first run of 15,000 copies was selling well in Moscow shops and China, Bulgaria and Slovenia have shown an interest in issuing a translation, the publisher said. Blotsky, who said he was a converted Putinist after his audiences with the president, said he was already working on the second volume of his series "Vladimir Putin: Rise to Power". 热情、无畏、无私、好客、谦逊、具有钢铁般的意志，即使在当上俄罗斯总统之后，他仍然保持了所有这些可贵的品质。这就是《弗拉基米尔·普京：生活的故事》中所描述的俄罗斯总统普京。 由克里姆林宫支持编写的人物传记《弗拉基米尔·普京：生活的故事》近日面世。该书是对生活中的普京总统的真实写照。这本《弗拉基米尔·普京：生活的故事》仅仅是普京三部曲中的第一部，体裁是传统的苏联传记写法（当初布尔什维克领袖列宁的传记也是运用的这种体裁）。 该书作者奥列格·布洛特斯基在1月21日召开的新闻发布会上说："这本书不是在为他（普京）歌功颂德。我只是转述了认识普京的人所说的话。" 该书从普京在列宁格勒(今圣彼得堡)出生一直讲到他成为一名前苏联克格勃，并详细列出了普京的家谱，最早可以追溯到18世纪初，其中用了一整章的篇幅讲述了普京祖先的故事。 克里姆林宫对布洛特斯基大开绿灯，方便他个人更多地接触普京。而该书的大部分则是普京的朋友和熟人对普京的回忆，内容大多都是温馨美好的往事。书中唯一没有赞扬普京的人是普京自己，而这恰恰显示了普京谦虚的品质。 俄罗斯总统普京在参观一个室外博物馆时亲自动手制陶器 朋友们对普京给予了很高的评价。有人把热爱柔道的年轻普京形容为一只勇猛的雪豹；还有朋友讲述了多年后已经入主克里姆林宫的普京，当胸戴勋章的二战老兵对他敬礼时被深深感动的故事。 《弗拉基米尔·普京：生活的故事》的开篇讲述了这样一个故事：有一位老妈妈写信给克里姆林宫，请求总统普京为他的启蒙老师立一个体面的墓碑，普京爽快地答应了。 有章节描述说，普京是一个不达胜利不会罢休的人。普京的一名老朋友回忆说："他会抓你、咬你、揪你头发，为了不被别人羞辱，他会不惜使用一切手段。"但年轻的普京也是一个普通的男孩，也害怕去看牙医。 全书用简单通俗的俄语写成，十分的通俗易懂。 布洛特斯基说，普京和其他政府官员都没有要求审查这本书，也没有对该书的创作提出什么具体的指导意见。普京总统是上周在书店的书架上看到这本书的。 《弗拉基米尔·普京：生活的故事》的出版商透露，该书首印的1.5万册目前在莫斯科十分畅销。此外，中国、保加利亚、斯洛文尼亚等国的出版商也表示有兴趣出版该书的外文版。 布罗特斯基在受到普京的几次接见后，已经成了不折不扣的"普京主义者"。现在他已经开始着手撰写普京传记的第二部--《弗拉基米尔·普京：大权在握》。
