Book shows Putin at his best (2002)padding-bottom: 146.79%;"> 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". 熱情、無畏、無私、好客、謙遜、具有鋼鐵般的意志，即使在當上俄羅斯總統之後，他仍然保持了所有這些可貴的品質。這就是《弗拉基米爾·普京：生活的故事》中所描述的俄羅斯總統普京。 由克里姆林宮支持編寫的人物傳記《弗拉基米爾·普京：生活的故事》近日面世。該書是對生活中的普京總統的真實寫照。這本《弗拉基米爾·普京：生活的故事》僅僅是普京三部曲中的第一部，體裁是傳統的蘇聯傳記寫法（當初布爾什維克領袖列寧的傳記也是運用的這種體裁）。 該書作者奧列格·布洛特斯基在1月21日召開的新聞發佈會上說："這本書不是在爲他（普京）歌功頌德。我只是轉述了認識普京的人所說的話。" 該書從普京在列寧格勒(今聖彼得堡)出生一直講到他成爲一名前蘇聯克格勃，並詳細列出了普京的家譜，最早可以追溯到18世紀初，其中用了一整章的篇幅講述了普京祖先的故事。 克里姆林宮對布洛特斯基大開綠燈，方便他個人更多地接觸普京。而該書的大部分則是普京的朋友和熟人對普京的回憶，內容大多都是溫馨美好的往事。書中唯一沒有讚揚普京的人是普京自己，而這恰恰顯示了普京謙虛的品質。 俄羅斯總統普京在參觀一個室外博物館時親自動手製陶器 朋友們對普京給予了很高的評價。有人把熱愛柔道的年輕普京形容爲一隻勇猛的雪豹；還有朋友講述了多年後已經入主克里姆林宮的普京，當胸戴勳章的二戰老兵對他敬禮時被深深感動的故事。 《弗拉基米爾·普京：生活的故事》的開篇講述了這樣一個故事：有一位老媽媽寫信給克里姆林宮，請求總統普京爲他的啓蒙老師立一個體面的墓碑，普京爽快地答應了。 有章節描述說，普京是一個不達勝利不會罷休的人。普京的一名老朋友回憶說："他會抓你、咬你、揪你頭髮，爲了不被別人羞辱，他會不惜使用一切手段。"但年輕的普京也是一個普通的男孩，也害怕去看牙醫。 全書用簡單通俗的俄語寫成，十分的通俗易懂。 布洛特斯基說，普京和其他政府官員都沒有要求審查這本書，也沒有對該書的創作提出什麼具體的指導意見。普京總統是上週在書店的書架上看到這本書的。 《弗拉基米爾·普京：生活的故事》的出版商透露，該書首印的1.5萬冊目前在莫斯科十分暢銷。此外，中國、保加利亞、斯洛文尼亞等國的出版商也表示有興趣出版該書的外文版。 布羅特斯基在受到普京的幾次接見後，已經成了不折不扣的"普京主義者"。現在他已經開始着手撰寫普京傳記的第二部--《弗拉基米爾·普京：大權在握》。
