Russia is somewhat surprised. Yesterday the news that President Vladimir Putin inherited an apartment in the center of Tel Aviv, the same that the president had given years ago who was his teacher of German during his adolescence and who died last December.

The Russian delegation in Israel reported that it took possession of a department that until December was owned by Mina Yuditskaya Berliner, Putin's teacher between 1967 and 1968 in St. Petersburg.

The history between student and teacher goes back to the high school years of the current president, when he was described as a good student, who always learned well the vocabulary and grammar, according to a note published by the newspaper El Mundo.

The history of Putin, his German teacher and a department in the center of Tel-Aviv

After that time, both lost contact but were reunited in 2005, when Berliner discovered that his former student, already president of one of the most powerful nations in the world, was visiting Israel, and he contacted the diplomatic representatives, the He left his contact information and said he would like to meet him again.

The meeting took place during the official visit of Putin to Israel, when the Embassy invited her to the official events where the Russian president made time for a private tea with his former teacher.

From that moment, the teacher began receiving gifts from the embassy, ​​including a watch and Putin's biography, until a Russian government employee showed up at her door and took her to see two departments in the center of Tel Aviv, offering to stay in one of them.

The teacher leaned for the humblest of the two, with only one room, to the detriment of a larger and more luxurious one in the modern street Shenkin, of the Israeli capital. "I told him that he had to be near the bus stop, the doctor and the market," Berliner said in an interview given to the Hebrew media in 2014, according to Telam.

When the teacher died last December, the Russian Embassy sent a representative to attend the funeral ceremony and help with the expenses. In his testament, Berliner had left in writing his wishes to return Putin to the modest home from which he had made his home.