In the summer of 1917, the Provisional Government issued an order for the arrest of more than 40 prominent figures of the Bolshevik Party, among whom, of course, was Comrade Lenin. Then Ilyich took refuge in a hut on the shore of Lake Razliv in the vicinity of Petrograd. 101 years later, we decided to visit this place, look at the legacy of communism and answer the question posed in the title.
Lenin's hut is located somewhere in the Sestroretsk area and is now completely called something like St. Petersburg State Institution "Historical and Cultural Museum Complex in Razliv" Museum "V.I. Lenin's Hut". On the board, someone made adjustments to the rules; now it is prohibited to hold monstrations and organize trade without permission from the directorate. 
It’s a little unusual to see art objects in such a place, but they certainly decorate the area. 
The hut itself, of course, has not survived, but there is a monument in granite and a model in straw. 
It is clear that the museum management is trying in every way to attract visitors to the complex who came just to take a walk to the museum. We need to take it into account. 
To be honest, I have already forgotten many details of that story, but we still didn’t go to the museum. Therefore, I will not reveal the intrigue. 
In general, the place is very picturesque, you even think differently here. 
Did Lenin know the astronauts? What about the astronauts and Lenin? The answer is in the museum. 
And we will continue to walk around the neighborhood. I got the impression that the vacated monuments to Lenin are being brought here. There are unusual ones, for example, this Ilyich was dubbed “dancing Lenin.” 
In general, it’s worth coming here not even for Lenin, but for nature. Very beautiful. Vladimir Ilyich chose good places. 
Oh yes. I promised to tell you with whom Lenin lived in the hut. We didn’t visit the museum, so we’ll have to use Wikipedia. It says that Lenin lived in a hut with Zinoviev. I won’t recount the details, I won’t take away bread from museum workers. Something like this. Take care of yourself and your children.
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(Exhibition of photographs “Leningrad modernism. A view from the 21st century”, St. Petersburg, House of Architects, June 21 - July 5, 2006)
“It was dangerous for Lenin to stay in the village of Razliv for a long time, and Emelyanov, on the deserted southeastern shore of the lake, rented a small clearing, surrounded by dense bushes, for haymaking. Here he built a hut from branches and covered them with hay. Nearby, a depression was made in a large haystack, in which newspapers and manuscripts were kept. Lenin hid in Razliv under the guise of a Finnish peasant hired for haymaking. He was soon joined by G. E. Zinoviev (1883-1936), one of the party leaders, who was also wanted by the police. Here Lenin began work over the book "State and Revolution" (1918). Emelyanov's son Kondraty delivered them provisions and fresh newspapers, and at the sight of strangers he began to whistle, imitating a bird. Lenin and Zinoviev stayed on the banks of the Razliv until August 8, 1917, then moved to Finland.
In 1928, on the initiative of the workers of Leningrad, a monument was built on this site according to the design of the architect A. I. Gegello, and in 1970, at the turn from the Primorskoye Highway to the road leading to the museum, the sculpture “Lenin in Razliv” was installed (work by V B. Pinchuk).
In 1969, not far from the hut, an exhibition museum pavilion was opened. Currently, it has been completely refurbished, and on July 26, 2006, a new exhibition “From Spring to Autumn 1917 (Historical Drama)” began operating there. The exhibition covers the period from March to October 25, 1917. The events are presented as a dramatic performance of five acts, which correspond to five theatrical models: “The Blue Notebook”, “The sealed carriage in which 32 political emigrants are returning to Russia” (March 27-30, 1917 .), “Petrograd Finland Station and Lenin speaking from an armored car in front of the workers greeting him” (April 3, 1917), “Sestroretsky Razliv, a hut in which Lenin and Zinoviev were hiding under the guise of mowers” (July 10 - August 8, 1917 .), "Petrograd. Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens" (October 25, 1917)
The large format photographs depict famous historical figures of that time. The inscriptions, made in telegraph style, recall the realities of the revolutionary situation and its dramatic outcome in 1917 - the October Revolution, which is now perceived as one of the most tragic events in the history of Russia." (museum website information, 09/23/2013)
" IN In a small pavilion, in addition to large photographs and figures in historical costumes, you can also see things that the leader of the world proletariat used on the banks of the Razliv. Near the remains of the fireplace are an axe, a kettle, a boat and Ilyich’s pillow. All items except the boat are props that have nothing to do with Lenin. There are several associated with the watercraft interesting stories. Few people, for example, know that during the war the boat, just like Lenin’s armored car, was saved from bombing by being buried in the ground. And no one realizes that for one leader there are two boats with similar and at the same time completely different fates.
The fact is that Lenin was hiding in Razliv not alone, but with his comrade-in-arms, Grigory Zinoviev. The only way the proletarian leaders could get from the barn of worker Nikolai Emelyanov to the hut on the shore of the lake was by water. Both Lenin and Zinoviev used separate boats. Years passed, and Grigory Zinoviev from the leaders October revolution turned into an enemy of the people, whom it was forbidden to even mention. He was simply removed from the story of Lenin’s adventures in Razliv, indicating in the books that Ilyich was hiding together with some unknown worker. Both boats became museum exhibits long before the trial of members of the Trotskyist-Zinoviev bloc. Both had signs indicating that one craft was used by Lenin, and the other by his comrade Zinoviev. It is quite clear that after the execution of the latter (in 1936), a boat with such a sign could not be kept in a Soviet museum and shown to visitors.
The solution to this problem turned out to be ingenious. The sign was torn down and, replacing it with “Lenin’s”, the boat was sent to Moscow, to the collections of the Central Museum of V.I. Lenin. There it has been perfectly preserved to this day, and now belongs to the State Historical Museum. So now in both capitals there are boats that Vladimir Ilyich allegedly used at the same time. True, no one can now say exactly where the “real one” is located - in Moscow or St. Petersburg."(from the article by Andrei Ivanov “It’s not heaven in a hut with Lenin,” Novaya Gazeta, 2006, No. 56)
"Shalash" V.I. Lenin" historical and cultural museum complex in Razliv has been replenished with a new exhibit. And what a one! A huge bust of the Leader of the world proletariat was recently installed opposite the entrance to the museum pavilion, in close proximity to both huts (both hay and granite), as well as the famous Lenin's "Green Cabinet". As the director of the museum, Natalya Kovalenko, said, the bust was received as a gift from the Great Concert Hall "Oktyabrsky". IN Soviet times On the eve of public holidays, ceremonial meetings of the Leningrad party community were held at the BKZ, and this bust was always installed in the center of the stage. But for the last twenty years it has been quietly collecting dust in the storeroom. Now it will become the first-born of the new museum collection. The management of the complex has been obsessed with the idea of creating a sculpture park of the Soviet period in “Shalash” for several years. This would undoubtedly attract additional attention to the museum and make its visit even more interesting. In such a park it will be possible to install not only sculptural images of Vladimir Lenin, but also everyone who was also popular with the creative masters of the era of socialist realism - athletes, pioneers, heroes... Yes, the same figure of a “girl with an oar” today no longer seems like something... sometimes banal, but quite the opposite, it represents a special flavor and nostalgia for the Soviet era, which is becoming an irrevocable past every year." (from the article by Vl. Kryuchkov “Replenishment in the “Shalash””, Newspaper “Health Resort of St. Petersburg” No. 22 (284) dated August 23, 2012)
In the Union there was a mandatory theme for mazilka (artistic) creativity, to depict the stay of the eternally living Ilyich in a hut or on a stump. This was useful for receiving various Lenin and Stalin prizes. Common daub
G.V. Kiyanchenko. Lenin in Razliv. 1975 https://sozecatel-51.livejournal.com/2359614.html
But here is a completely unexpected option - Lenin, Sverdlov and Dzerzhinsky in a hut. The last two, like Stalin, had never actually been to the flood; a close friend, Comrade, lived there. Zinoviev. 
source: https://espressostalinist.com/2016/08/13/v-i-lenin-on-liberals/“When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.”
- V. I. Lenin, “The Government’s Falsification of the Duma and the Tasks of the Social-Democrats”
Zinoviev himself is not visible in the paintings with Lukich; sometimes his bare feet stick out from the hut, since the main most correct Leninist, Dzhugashvili, cut out all the “wrong” Bolsheviks. But in historical chronicles it still has to be mentioned, even by such pro-Soviet authors as matveychev_oleg V: “The researcher notes that the mention that at the legendary Razliv station Lenin rested alone with Zinoviev in a “bedroom for two” is even contained in his last official biography (1981)..." in It has been proven that Lenin was a passive homosexual
Painting by Ivan Vladimirov "Lenin and Stalin in Razliv" 1935
"Chiefs on Stumps" There is no need to rush to condemn the artist Ivan Vladimirov, who painted the painting “Lenin and Stalin in Razliv in 1917”... it would be better to take a closer look at his paintings yourself. He painted for smart people.
At one time we were told that Lenin lived in a hut in Razliv, there are even poems on this topic by the venerable poet Sergei Mikhalkov, who describes things in the museum supposedly brought from there: A scythe, and a rake, and an ax, and an old oar, How many years have passed since since so many winters have passed... It’s impossible to heat water in this kettle, but how we want, friends, to look at that kettle! ........................................ .......... .
A hundred years will pass, and two hundred years, and three hundred years will pass... But every photograph and portrait, every thing, every object, will be preserved here forever. The venerable poet’s predictions did not come true, but this is not so important, but what is important are prizes, awards, and hundredfold increased benefits for the Mikhalkov family. If a picture of Lenin and Stalin was painted in 1917, then someone needs it! But Stalin needed the painting, although it was as if he had never been to Razliv. http://www.proza.ru/2011/04/23/965
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There are many variations near the hut and with the diary 
"10. Rozin Petr "Lenin and Stalin in Razliv" (1936) ... 
17. And finally, vodka “Lenin in Razliv”. Interestingly, I still found it in St. Petersburg - it was released about 15 years ago. It was on display. I haven't seen her for a long time." These last two and others from "Lenins in Spill" https://monetam.livejournal.com/724957.html
But this wonderful one - Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin - is not there
Again - Lenin and Sverdlov near the hut
remains of a mummy in a hut
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Oh, Pen! We bow to you, we sing songs to you and bring bouquets of flowers! (With)
Of course, not every Stump could deserve such an honor. Only that lucky stump on which the leader of the world proletariat, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, sat!
Eh, I wish I could sit on it... Millions Soviet people dreamed about it. In the rare intervals between everyday shock work:
We don't need the sun - the party shines for us,
We don't need bread - Let's work!
Both artists and craftsmen tried folk art. This is Palekh
By the way, they say that our Cambodian comrades immortalized our Stump in the name of their capital. I don't know, it's quite possible...
However, with these stumps it is not so simple. Firstly, as spiteful critics say, Ilyich lived in a hut not with his sweetheart, but with a man named Grigory. Everything would be fine, but Grigory Zinoviev turned out to be an enemy, and what to do if he was imprisoned
next to Ilyich on a nearby stump? And to whom exactly should I lay flowers? The question still remains open: were there two or three stumps? On the last scientific conference, dedicated to the Lenin anniversary, was
heated discussion about this...
Like two...
... And the comrade doesn’t particularly look like Zinoviev.
But Comrade Lenin always wore a tie to meet him.
However, even alone, living in a hut, Vladimir Ilyich wore a tie. This is very correct - it was in this form that Vladimir Ilyich most closely resembled the Finnish mower that he and Zinoviev pretended to be.))
Since we are talking about the hut, let us remember that in the beginning there was the Word, there was a Barn.
It was in this barn that Vladimir Ilyich and Grigory Evseevich began to live... In the attic, in the hayloft.
Of course, later it had to be put away under the hood - each visitor considered it his duty to take away a piece of wood or nails. There were rumors that cloves were good for rheumatism, and planks were good for urolithiasis...
Living in the barn became uncomfortable. Gossip spread throughout the village...
And then I had to move to the hut. And here, on those very stumps, Ilyich went wild:
In Razliv, Lenin worked on the brilliant book “State and Revolution”. In it, Vladimir Ilyich outlined ways to build a socialist state unprecedented in the history of mankind, and comprehensively developed
the question of the republic of Soviets - new form proletarian state.
Therefore, it is not surprising that already in 1927 a granite hut was erected on this site. And on the granite board they wrote:
“In the place where in July and August 1917, in a hut made of branches, the leader of the world October revolution hid from the persecution of the bourgeoisie and wrote his book “State and Revolution,” we erected a hut made of granite in memory of this. Workers of the city of Lenin. 1927.”
Naturally, this place is sacred and cultic. People come here to take communion, to join in, to be alone with themselves, to understand something important...
Children, after visiting the sanctuary, never cackle anymore, but smile slyly “Leninistically” through their mustaches)
However, today something has already changed...
On the Karelian Isthmus, 30 km from St. Petersburg, during the time of Peter I, a dam was built on the Sestra River for the needs of an arms factory and a lake called “Sestroretsky Razliv” appeared. Soon in this place, rich mineral water and therapeutic mud, a balneological mud resort was founded, and it became a favorite vacation spot for St. Petersburg summer residents. In July-August 1917, events unfolded on the shores of Razliv that largely determined the course of the history of our country.
In July 1917, the Provisional Government orders the arrest of Vladimir Lenin and several prominent members of the Bolshevik Social Democratic Party. At first, the revolutionary hides in safe houses in Petrograd, and on July 10, together with Grigory Zinoviev, he arrives on the outskirts of Sestroretsk to visit arms factory worker Nikolai Emelyanov. Emelyanov’s house, and then a hut in the forest on the shore of the Sestroretsky Razliv, become the last place of refuge for the leader of the world proletariat.
the site recalls Lenin’s conspiracy story on the eve of the October Revolution.
"Barn" in Emelyanov's house
Setroretsk was not chosen as the underground site by chance. Many workers at the arms factory, the main enterprise of the city, were members of the RSDLP party and supported the Bolsheviks. Nikolai Emelyanov himself was a member of the Petrograd Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies and knew Lenin since 1906. He was ideally suited to the role of underground organizer.
All residents of the Sestroretsk outskirts earned extra money in the summer by renting out their houses to St. Petersburg residents. The Emelyanov family was no exception. But in the summer of 1917, the Emelyanovs were not expecting guests - they started renovating the house, so when the revolutionaries arrived, the whole family was huddled in a small two-story building in the courtyard, simply called a barn. The same house-barn was to accommodate two guests who arrived under the cover of darkness.
Zinoviev and Lenin were given a place on the second floor, where they placed a desk, two chairs, and sleeping places were made from armfuls of hay. Lenin's barn has survived to this day.
In 1925, in memory of the stay of the leader of the revolution, a museum was founded there with original things that Lenin used - a stove, a large brass kettle, Viennese chairs, a samovar and a ladder along which he climbed to the attic. True, in order to preserve the building in the 1960s, a glass sarcophagus had to be “put on” the barn, therefore, today one of Lenin’s last secret places is a bit reminiscent of his resting place - a mausoleum.
Lenin's hut
Despite the adherence of the residents of Razliv to the ideas of Bolshevism, it was not safe for the revolutionaries to remain in the village for a long time. And the head of the family began to look for a more secluded place - a mowing area behind the lake, which, due to the lack of roads, could only be reached by boat. A few days after Lenin and Zinoviev were in the barn, he transported them to the eastern shore of the lake, inventing just in case a legend that he had hired Finnish mowers for the summer.
There, in a deep forest, Emelyanov and his sons built a hut for two guests, placing three logs nearby - one large, which served as a desk, and two smaller ones as chairs. It was in this place, called the “green office”, that Lenin wrote his famous work"State and Revolution".
In a deep forest, Emelyanov and his sons built a hut for two guests. Photo: AiF-Petersburg/ Marina Konstantinova
The Emelyanovs tried to ensure that Lenin and Zinoviev had everything they needed in the hut. One of the sons delivered all the newspapers that came out, another did the cooking, and the third was assigned as an observer. His task was to warn the inhabitants of the hut about the approach of “guests” by giving a signal in an agreed upon bird voice. During the three weeks of the underground workers' stay in the forest, they were visited by several party comrades - Yakov Sverdlov, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Grigory Ordzhonikidze. During the Stalin years, they preferred not to mention many of Lenin’s guests, as well as the fact that Lenin was hiding in Razliv with Zinoviev - in the 1930s he was already classified as an enemy of the people.
In August, the time for haymaking came to an end. With the beginning of the hunting season, it was no longer safe to remain in the forest near the lake, and the situation in the country was still far from allowing the Bolsheviks to come out of hiding and openly act. The party's central committee decided to transport Lenin to Finland. And again Emelyanov played a decisive role in Lenin’s fate - he prepared documents for him in the name of the Sestroretsk worker Konstantin Ivanov. On August 9, 1917, with a fake passport, Lenin left for Finland to return to Petrograd on the eve of October.
Documents addressed to Sestroretsk worker Konstantin Ivanov. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org / Peter Ivanov
Museum in a hut
Lenin's hut, like the barn, was turned into a museum in 1928. For many years it became a place of pilgrimage for millions of supporters of the young socialist state around the world. Here they accepted pioneers, presented awards, and held all-Union conferences.
Asphalt was laid to the hut from Sestroretsk, and a pavilion of granite and marble was built nearby for permanent and temporary exhibitions. Today Lenin's hut is not so popular. Of all the events, only the tradition of holding conferences was preserved: interest in the revolutionary history of the country is now not ideological, but purely scientific. On Museum Day, workers of the Lenin hut can, if they wish, be accepted as pioneers and tie a scarlet tie around their necks. According to them, this idea was suggested by the tourists themselves. For the first time, for the sake of such a ritual, I had to sacrifice an old red curtain. And soon a whole batch of pioneer ties was found at the curtain and tulle factory in St. Petersburg - they were released just in October 1991, and with the collapse of the USSR and socialism, they were no longer needed by anyone. The museum bought the valuable rarity, and now on Lenin’s birthday, everyone can solemnly tie the pioneer’s main attribute around their neck.
Lenin's hut, like the barn, was turned into a museum in 1928. Photo: AiF-Petersburg/ Marina Konstantinova
The fate of Lenin's main savior, Nikolai Emelyanov, turned out to be tragic. Neither he nor his family’s brave act saved them from reprisals. In 1932, together with his wife, he was sentenced to 10 years in the camps. The old revolutionary was released only after Stalin's death. Two of his sons were shot. After his release, Nikolai Emelyanov was returned all his awards and personal pension. Until his death in 1958, he conducted excursions to the places of the last Leninist underground, sharing details of Lenin’s stay in Sestroretsk places.
St. Petersburg is full of attractions, but since the Soviet past for me is shrouded in a certain flair of romanticism - after all, this was the time of my youth - I once wanted to visit the place where Vladimir Ilyich himself hid and wrote his revolutionary works. Simply put, I went to the hut of the leader of the world revolution.
I had little idea what I would encounter on the spot, other than mosquitoes. And there were the most fantastic assumptions about mosquitoes. “They say that after the revolution, the mosquitoes that bit Lenin himself were caught by specially trained NKVD officers and placed in resin. The resulting amber with insects was then taken to a secret special storage facility for communist relics, because these mosquitoes contain the blood of Ilyich himself, which means they are powerful artifacts of communist occultism, surpassing in power even the scarlet pentagrams of the Kremlin and Chapaev’s saber. When the time comes, the amber will be broken, mosquitoes will be removed and a new Lenin will be grown from the blood in a flask, only he will be 190 cm tall, with the physique of a bodybuilder, immunity to all diseases, a chrome-plated bulletproof skeleton under living flesh and an atomic battery instead of a heart - “and instead of a heart fiery engine,” as was prophetically sung in one Soviet song. He will go out to Red Square and say: “I’m back!” Tu-dum-tum-thudum! Tu-dum-tum-thudum!” - Oleg Vikharev writes about a local attraction.
Okay, now let's get down to business.
In the summer of 1917, Lenin, together with his comrade-in-arms Grigory Zinoviev, was hiding on the shores of Lake Razliv near Sestroretsk.
According to Mayak radio, the story of the famous hut looks like this:
“After the Bolshevik attempt to seize power on July 3-4, 1917 in Petrograd, the Provisional Government issued an order for the arrest of more than 40 prominent figures of the Bolshevik Party. From July 5 to July 9, 1917, V. I. Lenin, who was openly accused of working for the German government, was hiding in Petrograd, and on the night of July 9 to 10 he moved to Razliv under the guise of a Finn mower. He settled with a worker at the Sestroretsk arms factory, N.A. Emelyanov, who lived that summer in a barn adapted for housing due to the renovation of his house. G. E. Zinoviev also lived with him. After Lenin lived for several days in the attic of the barn, police appeared in the village. This was the reason to change the place to a hut on the other side of the Spill. In August, due to the end of haymaking and the start of hunting in the forests near Lake Razliv, it became dangerous to stay in the hut. In addition, the rains became more frequent and it became cold. The Central Committee of the Party decided to hide V.I. Lenin in Finland.”
To this day, this historical place is popular with tourists, especially foreign ones, and communists often hold rallies here.
More specifically, the “Lenin’s Hut” museum is located in the village of Tarkhovka. So it’s quite possible to get there without wandering through the mosquito jungle. I took the train at the Finlyandsky station in St. Petersburg and arrived in Tarkhovka. We met Lenin right at the station. Of course, in the form of a monument cast in bronze. Vladimir Ilyich sat uncomfortably behind a tree stump and wrote something intently on metal pages. Actually, this monument is called “Lenin in Razliv”. It was installed in 1925.
You won't get lost in the village. A clearly visible road leads to the main attraction, on which every now and then you come across symbols of the Soviet past: either a sickle and a hammer, or painted wooden fences, or something else. It will take a long time to walk, as much as 4.5 km, it is better to immediately catch a ride to the Shalash restaurant. From here to the hut itself is just a stone's throw away.
You will have to walk under the attentive gaze of the surrounding Ilyichs. There appear to be monuments to Lenin in the surrounding area. As one of my acquaintances aptly put it, “it seems that the monuments were sent there because Lenin looked at them so-so.”
A hut is a structure made of hay and poles. It seems that it is updated annually, otherwise there is no way to explain the safety of the hay. Near the hut is a hut monument erected in 1927. Around him in Soviet years accepted into the pioneers, ceremonial rallies were held.
There is also the “Shalash” museum nearby; in the summer, throughout the entire territory of the “historical and entertainment complex” there are unusual full houses with signs indicating where to go. There is also a “Green Cabinet” - that is, two stumps on which Lenin worked. Also with a pointer to the museum.
However, I did not go to the museum, although, they say, it is there that you can get acquainted with the collection of drills and punches donated by the staff of the Sestroretsk Tool Plant, look at photographs of Lenin, his cap, the boat on which Lenin was transported and all sorts of other things.
Instead, I walked around Lenin's places. It must be said that the nature here is amazingly beautiful. It must be very pleasant to sit on the shore and contemplate the sunsets. If, of course, it weren’t for mosquitoes...
This is how I managed to visit the iconic place in the past. I won't say that everyone soviet man I have to go there, but it’s still possible once in my life. Diversifying your leisure time in this way is not the last thing.
Alexandra Sheleeva