First Person by Vladimir Putin

Author:Vladimir Putin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2011-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

Marina Yentaltseva:

A woman called our office and said “Lyudmila Aleksandrovna asked me to call you. She’s been in an accident. She asked me to telephone.” What should I do in a situation like this? Vladimir Vladimirovich wasn’t in his office. He was in the meeting with the foreigners. One of his deputies took a car, went to pick up Katya, and brought her right to the office in Smolny. I kept asking, “Katya, what happened?” And she said “I don’t know. I was sleeping.” She had been lying on the back seat. When the car crashed, she was probably thrown and knocked out.

At first I thought that Lyudmila Aleksandrovna was okay because she was in the doctors’ care. And I needed to take the little girl to a doctor because she was bruised and seemed subdued. We went to a doctor right at Smolny, and he advised me to take her to a pediatrician.

We went to a children’s neurologist at the pediatric institute to see if Katya had suffered a concussion. The doctor couldn’t really tell us, but said that the child needed some peace and quiet. The doctor asked her what had happened, but Katya wasn’t in any condition to explain anything. She was probably in shock.

The driver who had brought Katya to Smolny said that Lyudmila Aleksandrovna had been conscious when the ambulance came for her. I thought to myself, “Well, that’s alright, then, it can’t be too bad.” Later I called the hospital to find out what the diagnosis was. Nobody told me anything about a skull fracture or a cracked vertebra.

Still, we were wondering. Vladimir Vladimirovich asked me to phone Yuri Leonidovich Shevchenko at the Military Medical Academy. He wasn’t there. I phoned a second time, a third, a fourth, a fifth time, and he still wasn’t there. Finally, late in the evening, I got a hold of him. And he immediately sent his surgeons over to remove Lyudmila Aleksandrovna from the hospital and bring her to his clinic.

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