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The world’s oldest woman died in August, aged 129, in Russia, where she lived, reports the Mirror.
Koku Istambulova, a survivor of Stalin’s repression, would have celebrated her 130th birthday on June 1 next year, and became famous in Russia after entering the country’s book of records.
However, Istambulova said in several interviews that she saw her longevity as a “punishment”, as she hadn’t been happy “a single day” of her life, during which she experienced the “horrors of several wars”, “a lot of misery” and the heartbreak of burying two children when they were still infants.
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