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Lenin's Embalmers by I.B. Zbarskii & Samuel Hutchinson & Ilya Zbarsky
Zbarski, the last survivor of the family that embalmed and maintained the body of Lenin tells his story, reveals the adventure of his family and of those who worked in the mausoleum laboratory. It is also the story of the burgeoning Soviet Union, and of those who faced Stalin's anti-Semitic paranoia.Professor Ilya Zbarski mummified Lenin two months after his death to maintain the Soviet founder's body in perpetuity. Between 1924 and the fall of communism in 1991, hundreds of millions of visitors paid their respects to the embalmed bodies of Lenin and later, Stalin. This text reveals the story of Zbarski, his family and of those who worked in the mausoleum laboratory. Lenin's body was plunged into a secret solution based on glycerine and potassium acetate. This story, unthinkable except in a totalitarian regime, is also that of the burgeoning Soviet Union and those who, disregarding Stalin and his growing antisemitic paranoia, believed that working in the shadows of the mausoleum would protect them forever. Abandoned by the State since 1991, the laboratory can only survive through the patronage of the "nouveaux riches" and the Russian mafia dynasties. The text includes both archival and contemporary photographs. |
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| Author(s) : | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 1860465153 | ISBN-13 : 9781860465154 |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 15/10/1998
Publisher : Vintage
Page Length : 208mm
Page Size : 197mm