You would have to ask Mike Hezekiah about that, I think he's a pastafarian or headed in that direction, or away from it, I'm not sure. It's even possible he's about to become French.
Your idea is interesting though and the attached images suggest a possible line of descent. This is a very difficult area of history with every incentive for misdirection active and applicable to all persons. Additionally if there was an infant to protect every subterfuge would be employed. In such cases bone structure, particularly of the zygomatic bone, the supraorbital margin and the nasal bone, may be used as a guide to identification and a "negative" image brings out this salient feature very well; family resemblances are quite distinctive. During the communist era Mr Putin suffered persecution as a believer not perhaps in the form of actual torture but in being sidelined professionally and we know how far these atheistic heathens were prepared to go in their attempts to eradicate God not only from the public square but from the hearts and minds of every Russian. But young Vladimir stood firm in his faith. Unfortunately the previously established Church was Russian Orthodox and with incessant KGB obscurantism surrounding him what a challenge it must have been to retain any belief at all.
Romans 8 . KJV . look up
29-31a Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things?
31b If God be for us, who can be against us?
Now that God's will is being sought again it can only begin from where it was left off in 1918 so abruptly on that dreadful day. As we pray for Russia's deliverance we are confident that an outpouring of His Holy Spirit shall deliver enlightenment where for so long and for so many lives there had been only darkness. From the article you linked, I noticed that Mr Putin's grandparental generation and St Petersburg are intertwined during a very turbulent period. How would an honourable man emerging from the most extreme peril in such an environment conduct his affairs thenceforth?
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The president’s family tree is not traced after Putin’s grandfather Spiridon Putin, who left the Tver governor for St.Petersburg at the age of 15. Vladimir Putin’s grandfather was a serious, reserved man of immaculate honesty. Spiridon Putin became a good cook. He worked in fancy restaurants in St.Petersburg before the revolution of 1917. Later, he was invited to cook for Lenin himself. When Lenin passed away, Spiridon Putin started working at one of Stalin’s dachas. Putin’s grandfather managed to survive the horrid period of the Soviet history. When he retired, he was living and cooking at a holiday camp of the Communist Party. Vladimir Putin tells about his grandfather that he was a man, who liked being silent most of his time.
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I'll just leave the pictures here, they are difficult to find particularly at similar ages but I'm sure you'll see what I mean.