These women remain in the shadows of history, but without them there would be no famous world leaders. Their children became great people who left an indelible mark on the history of their countries and even the world, and all this time their mothers were simply there and supported. We invite you to find out the names and faces of women who gave birth to future rulers of states.
Mother of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev - Alzhan (1910-1977).
She was born in the village of Kasyk, now the village of Talapty, Kordai district, Zhambyl region, in the family of mullah Zhatkanbai from the Kaskarau (?as?arau) branch of the Dulat clan of the Senior Zhuz. All her life she worked as an ordinary worker on a collective farm and ran a household. The parents of the future president met at the construction of Turksib, where Abish got a job as a freelance foreman, and the Alzhan family, along with other special settlers, was forced into forced labor. They got married in 1934, and in the first 6 years of their marriage they had no children, so the birth of the long-awaited heir was greeted with boundless joy and interpreted as a reward to the virtuous spouses for their love, fidelity and patience.
The mother of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is Ekaterina Trofimovna Lukashenko.
Born in 1924, died May 26, 2015. Ekaterina Lukashenko graduated from four classes of the Alexandria school. Started working early. In 1944-1949 she worked on the railway, then at a construction site, at a flax factory in Orsha. In 1957 she returned to Alexandria, where she worked as a milkmaid until 1979. After her retirement, Ekaterina Lukashenko continued to work for another four years - until 1983. She was awarded various diplomas and certificates.
The mother of Russian President Vladimir Putin is Maria Ivanovna Shelomova (1911-1998).
She was born in the village of Zarechye, Turginovsky district, Tver region, into a peasant family. She worked at a factory and survived the siege of Leningrad. She was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad".
Mother of the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama - Anne Dunham
Born November 29, 1942 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Anne met her first husband, an African student at the University of Hawaii, Barack Obama Sr., in a Russian language class. On August 4, 1961, their son Barack Hussein Obama was born. Dunham filed for divorce in Honolulu in January 1964, her husband did not object, and the marriage was dissolved on March 20, 1964. Obama Sr. visited Obama Jr. only once: in 1971, when the future US president was 10 years old.
Anne Dunham majored in anthropology and rural development. She died of cancer on November 7, 1995 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
The mother of the 43rd US President George W. Bush, Barbara Bush, was born in 1925.
She met her future husband, George Bush, at the age of sixteen during a Christmas ball. A year and a half later, just before Bush left for the army, the engagement took place. On January 6, 1945 they got married. After the war ended, they moved to Midland, Texas, where they had six children, the eldest of whom was George W. Bush. Currently, Barbara Bush lives with her husband in Houston, Texas.
The mother of the first President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, is Claudia Starygina (1908-1993).
She gave birth to two children, a peasant, a dressmaker.
Stalin's mother is Ekaterina Georgievna Geladze (1858-1937).
Ekaterina (Keke) Geladze was born in an Orthodox Georgian village, and at the age of 17 she married Vissarion (Beso) Dzhugashvili. After the birth of Joseph, Vissarion began to drink heavily, so Keke left him. Stalin's mother was an extremely strict and cruel woman, she worked hard to give her son the best and wanted him to become a priest.
The mother of Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev is Maria Panteleevna Gopkalo (1911-1993).
She was a simple peasant woman who worked on a collective farm all her life. During the first winter of the war, she was arrested and spent several days in the district prison. After the death of her husband, she lived alone in her house, received a pension, and maintained a vegetable garden. After Gorbachev was deprived of all positions, local authorities ceased to show their previous concern for her. Neighbors who condemned the collapse of the USSR turned their backs on her.
The mother of the 42nd US President William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton is Virginia Dell Cassidy (1923-1994).
She studied to become a nurse anesthetist in Shreveport, Louisiana, where she met her future husband, William (father of the future president). In 1943 they got married. During World War II, William served in Egypt and Italy. Died in a car accident on May 17, 1946, on the way from Chicago to Hope. When Bill was four years old, his mother remarried.
In one of his interviews, Bill Clinton admitted that without his mother’s support he would never have achieved such high positions.
The mother of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is Rosella Bossi (1911-2008).
Housewife. The whole country called the woman Mama Rose. Despite their modest income, Rosa and her husband gave their son a decent school education. Already during his studies, Silvio showed entrepreneurial skills - he earned his first money by selling tickets to a free puppet show. Silvio also helped his classmates with their homework and completed tests for them. He accepted payment for this in kind, such as candy, but was more willing to accept money. If the ward received a low grade, Berlusconi returned his fee.
The mother of German Chancellor Angela Merkel is Gerlinda Kasner.
Born in 1928 in Gdańsk, she lived in Elbląg until 1936. She worked as a teacher of Latin and English.
The mother of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is Andre Sarkozy (Malla).
The daughter of a famous doctor in the 17th arrondissement of Paris studied at the Faculty of Law and became a lawyer. Andre's father, Benedict Malla, was a Sephardic Jew, an immigrant from Thessaloniki who converted to Catholicism, her mother, Adele Bouvier, was a French nurse from Savoy of the Catholic faith.
Lenin's mother is Maria Alexandrovna Blank (1835-1916).
In her marriage, Maria Alexandrovna gave birth to eight children: four sons and four daughters. Four of her children became revolutionaries. She supported her son Vladimir in his activities and visited him abroad twice (in France in the summer of 1902 and in Stockholm in the fall of 1910).
John Kennedy's mother is Rose Fitzgerald (1890-1995).
On October 8, 1914, she married Joseph Patrick Kennedy. Rose and Joseph had nine children. After the death of her husband in November 1969, Rose Kennedy remained a widow and died on January 22, 1995 at the age of 104. She survived four of her nine children and three grandchildren.
The mother of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain is Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002).
