Lenin's Embalmbers by Ilya Zbarsky

Between 1924 and the fall of communism in 1991, many millions of visitors paid their respects to the embalmed body of Lenin in Red Square. This is the story of the mausoleum, told by the only survivor of the family that plunged the founder of the Soviet Union into a solution of glycerine and potassium acetate to preserve him forever. Alongside the story of the laboratory and its close ties with Stalin, Ilya Zbarsky also tells his family's story.

Publisher:	Harvill Press
Year:	1999
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781860466557
Condition:	Very Good

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SKU: 1587682
Location: Non Fiction