Relationships & More
| Marital Status (at the time of death) | Married |
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Family
| Spouse | Feodor Vassilyev (peasant of Government of Moscow) |
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| Children | Valentina Vassilyev and her husband, Feodor Vassilyev, had 69 children between 1725 and 1765. This included 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplet. 67 of them survived while one set of twins died in infancy. |
Some Lesser Known Facts
| Valentina Vassilyev holds the record for the most children born to a single woman. She gave birth to 69 children in total. Her husband, Feodor Vassilyev, was a peasant from Shuya, Russia. The couple had 69 children between 1725 and 1765. Valentina had 27 pregnancies, including 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. 67 of their children survived infancy. The length of Valentina's pregnancies varied: approximately 37 weeks for twins, 32 weeks for triplets, and 30 weeks for quadruplets. The specifics like names and dates of birth and death of the children are not known. The Monastery of Nikolskiy chronicled their story on 27 February 1782. It was featured in The Guinness Book of World Records in 1998. Later, Feodor Vassilyev had 18 children with his second wife through eight pregnancies. He supposedly fathered 87 children in total, but the accuracy of this claim is uncertain. The Gentleman’s Magazine in London verifies the assertion about his additional offspring. |