Yeltsin visited Perm in central Russia during his 1991 presidential campaign. Local hotel officials feared their beds were too short for him and added 20 centimeters to their standard mattress and bedframe, the newspaper wrote.
Now that the hotel is to be sold under a Yeltsin-ordered privatization plan, its managers want to make sure the historic bed survives the changes.
They want to sell the bed at auction, and hope a local museum will buy it.
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