- Did you know that the greatest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev (b. 1707–c.1782), a peasant from Shuya, Russia.
- She gave birth to 69 children, 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets.
- The case was reported to Moscow by the Monastery of Nikolsk on 27 Feb 1782, which had recorded every birth.
- When the woman died her husband remarried and had another 18 kids!
- By his first wife:
4 x 4 = 16
7 x 3 = 21
16 x 2 = 32
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27 births 69 children
By his second wife:
6 x 2 = 12
2 x 3 = 6
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8 births 18 children
- "In all, 35 births, 87 children, of which 84 are living and only three buried...
