The former gymnast did not look as slim as when she could amaze entire stadiums with her flying jumps or her famous human knot; she did not look as smooth as in the Playboy photos published soon after the world first heard rumors of her secret romance with the Russian leader. But she still had her charming, open smile and a penetrating, firm gaze underneath her thick dark eyebrows. The documentary even trotted out Valentina Tereshkova, once Russia’s most famous woman as the first female astronaut in space and a fellow parliamentarian, who described Kabaeva as “a totally solid personality.”