My son taught me that in the Russian Language, “Rasputin is Crooked”, whereas “Putin is Straight”
Interesting, I didn’t know that.
Thanks.
Some author about a decade ago tried to do a genealogy on Vlad and could not find one single “Putin” prior to the 20th century in any Russian census/database.
The surname literally doesn’t exist. In other words, the lineage cannot be traced.
Like he just made up the name or was given it by somebody with authority.