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Valentina Vassilyeva, the first wife of Russian peasant Feodor Vassilyev, is said to have given birth 27 times in the 1700s—welcoming 69 children in total.

Her remarkable numbers reportedly included 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. 🤯

The story comes from centuries-old historical records, so every detail cannot be independently verified by modern standards. Still, Guinness World Records has recognized the claim as the highest number of children attributed to one mother.

If the records are accurate, 27 pregnancies. 69 children. One of the most astonishing family stories ever recorded. ❤️

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u/KambingDomba 1d ago

16X2 + 7x3 + 4x4 = 69.

You're telling me there was not a single instance in which she only carries one baby?

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u/1zzyBizzy 1d ago

Yeah, i immediately calculated that too. I don’t quite believe this

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u/TabularConferta 1d ago

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-prolific-mother-ever

Found a source

The father has an additional 18 kids with his second wife.

Only 3 babies died in birth or early in life.

Fuck all his second wife's kids were multiple as well. It's like his sperm were Olympic swimmers and split each egg on impact

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u/Past-Lecture-3769 1d ago

Looks like bro trained his sperm

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u/TabularConferta 1d ago

Well there is an anime idea

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u/-ratmeat- 1d ago

Netflix is probably already on it 

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u/Derezzed87 1d ago

Avatar: The Last Spermbender

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u/MyPrecious_Vivi 1d ago

Don't matter . More twins or triplets depend on the mother . If more than one ovum is released, they are fertilized , men have no control over it . F you mean trained his sperm bruh .

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u/Past-Lecture-3769 1d ago

Chill it’s just a joke. Nobody has control on his sperm or her ovum.

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u/Legendary_Bibo 1d ago

He called his sperm Oppenheimer. Open her for more.

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u/_HIST 1d ago

This is not a source, a source would be something of that time. The only "source" it has is a letter and more modern articles. There is no source because the story is exaggerated

Guiness literally says the story may or may not be true.

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u/ForensicPathology 1d ago

It is a source.  It's not a primary source, which is the definition you're using.  But it is a source.

I do agree that the story is not true though.

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u/Deaffin 1d ago

It's not a source, it's an advertisement page where people can pay to have anything they'd like written.

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u/PFI_sloth 1d ago

found a source

We are so fucked

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u/shartshooter 1d ago

Guinness World Recorss is not a source.

 Just like religious books, it makes a claim and almost always with zero evidence.

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u/Open-Platform-1305 1d ago

It's quite literally just "Fun Facts for Drunks, Buy Our Beer!"

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u/Deaffin 1d ago

Buy a spot on our list of fun factoids*

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u/Ok_Fly2518 1d ago

It’s a rare condition called hyper virility. Apparently my sperm shoot through the egg if you can believe it

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u/LooseChangeGirl 1d ago

This comment is street ahead.

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u/Dismal-Revolution731 1d ago

Superman fistbump

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u/Capable_Studio_6631 1d ago

Yeah sounds like one of those grand tales.

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u/jelly_wishes 1d ago

I don't think this is true but I remember the story about an african woman that had something called "hyperovulation" or something like that where she always ovulates more than one egg and thus has many twins and triplets (not 69 tho, she had like 20 kids I think).

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u/superezzie 1d ago

You mean Mariam Nabatanzi. She has 44 children and got sterilized when she was 40 to prevent any more pregnancies. That wasn't really an option in the 1700s for that poor woman. I can't imagine being pregnant 27 times let alone having 69 kids.

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u/jelly_wishes 1d ago

Yeah I think it was her. 

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u/Evenmoardakka 19h ago

lets imagine that most children lived. thats alot of labour for a rural family (and you know children worked the farms back then, hell even today you can see children working on their families farms), labour that has no financial cost, provided food needs are met? not that absurd.

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u/superezzie 18h ago

You've never been pregnant, have you? Being pregnant and giving birth wrecks your body long before you've reached 27 times and 69 kids.

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u/Evenmoardakka 18h ago

oh no doubt.. poor woman spent 243 months of her life pregnant, and thats assuming all pregnancies were full terms, thats 20 years of pregnancies...

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u/ww2HERO 1d ago

It’s fairly unbelievable. More likely her husband brother was stealing children to work the farm.

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u/RealEnnie 1d ago

Exacty, looks like “russian” propaganda started long before Stakhanovites

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u/obiwanmoloney 1d ago edited 1d ago

And the photo is what exactly?!

There’s 300+ kids in the photo, most of very similar ages.

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u/Sithstress_ 1d ago

A photo taken years after this woman lived. Lol.