Lenin"s mystery. From the memories of the editor. 1917-1926

For the first time in Russia, memories of S.I. are published. Anichkova (Baronessa Taube), journalist and writer, the will of the fate in the very center of public and cultural life of post-revolutionary Russia. Arriving in the factories of Petrograd, in the province and at home, literary evenings, she constantly communicated not only with his communist bosses, colleagues and students of studios - working young people, but also with peasants who looked from hungry villages in the arteel of the city. Her bright sketches of paintings and moods of the pioneer life, which were reflected in popular among the population of Soviet and anti-Soviet couplets, jokes, verses, in the topical expression of famous poets, are transmitted to the atmosphere of those years, allow you to add memorable strokes to the characteristics of the Soviet rulers