Hanna Barysevich

Hanna Adamauna Barysevich (Belarusian: Ганна Адамаўна Барысевiч, Russian: Анна Адамовна Борисевич; Navitska; (claimed) – 23 February 2007) was the oldest female resident of Belarus not registered by the Guinness Book of Word Records. Until her death, she was reputedly the oldest resident in the country and, according to the media, in the world. She lived to the claimed age of 118 years and 281 days.

Early life Hanna Navitska was born in the village of Buda near Ihumen (modern-day Chervyen), to a peasant family of Adam Navitski and his second wife, Yuzefa. When she was sixteen months old (four months according to other data), her mother died. Her father remarried. Navitska was raised by her older stepsister and grandmother.

When Navitska was a child, her family moved to Stary Koychyn (now Byerazino district). Her father, Adam, purchased a piece of land from the owner of the manor. As payment, the Navitski family worked on the landowner's land. Navitska did not attend school and could not write or read: Quote|text=Girls and older women were not taught to write. Under Lenin in likbez they were taught how to make a signature. a member of the Selsoviet. Ipalit died in 1940. In interviews, Hanna hardly talked about him, only mentioning that she had forgiven him. She did not remarry.

Longevity record

The media became interested in Barysevich in 2004. When the woman exchanged her passport, officials noted the petitioner's age - 115. Initially a mistake was suspected.

Prior to the release of the Guinness Book of Records for 2007, the Belarusian side put forward the candidacy of Barysevich as a record holder of longevity, but the Belarusian resident was left out. The reason for this was the doubts of the editors of the publishing house, who did not trust documents published in the former Soviet Union. In 2007, the official longevity record holder was a 114-year-old resident of Japan, while Barysevich was 118 at the time.

In 2007, Barysevich's name as a longevity record holder was entered in the Book of Records of Russia, CIS and Baltic States "Divo" (Книгу рекордов России, стран СНГ и Прибалтики "Диво")''. The tests showed that the biological age of the 117-year-old Barysevich could be estimated at 75 years. The case of the surgery was widely reported in the media as setting a record for operating on the oldest patient in the world. A surgery on the second eye was also planned, but did not take place due to Barysevich's death. Until the end of her life, Barysevich retained her mental clarity and good memory. They inquired about her attitude toward the authorities of successive regimes, Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev. They also asked questions about her attitude toward the Belarusian government of the time. In her answer, the woman highlighted the repetition of history. Of all political activists, she respected Vladimir Lenin the most:

She believed that the best period of her life was the Brezhnev era:

She was ambivalent about Alexander Lukashenko's presidency and the policies implemented by him. She believed that the district and city authorities were deceiving citizens because they were not meeting their demands. During an interview with the opposition media on her one hundred and seventeenth birthday, referring to the attitude of the authorities toward veterans of the Great Patriotic War, she expressed the view of unequal treatment of war heroes and ordinary citizens:

Barysevich was skeptical of the church hierarchy at the end of her life. In interviews, she spoke of the decline of the authority of clerical power: