20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Sometimes it is difficult to imagine what politicians looked like long before they gained power and left their mark on the history of different states of the world. This material presents old photographs of world leaders of the present and past, in which you can see them in a way that you have hardly ever seen.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

16-year-old Kim Il Sung in 1928.

7th King of Saudi Arabia Salman in 1954. At the age of 19, he was deputy governor of the country's capital, Riyadh.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 1990.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in the 1950s.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau feeds pigeons in Venice with his father, Pierre Trudeau, who in turn led the country's government in 1980.

In the early 1990s, at the age of 19, former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi participated in a TV quiz show where he managed to win the equivalent of several tens of thousands of euros.

Japanese Prime Minister (2006-2007 and 2012-2020) Shinzo Abe (left) in 1956.

Fascist leader of Italy Benito Mussolini in 1903, after being detained by the Swiss police.

Adolf Hitler as a child.

Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain with her sister Margaret in 1943. They took part in the First Campaign of the Women's Scouts at Buckingham Palace. The two stripes on her uniform indicate that she is a scout leader.

Former US President Bill Clinton pony rides around the yard as a child, Arkansas.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (then President of the Oxford Union debating society) in 1986.

Ex-President of Brazil (January 1, 2011 to August 31, 2016) Dilma Rousseff (center).

Former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez after his failed attempt to overthrow the government in 1992. A few years later he was elected president.

Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu in 1986. At the time, he was Israel's ambassador to the United States.

Former US President Barack Obama with his grandparents in New York, 1980s.

Former US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1890s.

Romanian Communist Party leader Nicolae Ceausescu at the age of 16, 1934.

Indian public and political figure Mahatma Gandhi (right) with his brother Laxmidas in 1886.