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What could have made Vasiliev (in whose mouth the words are embedded in the publication that "minutes of communication with Lenin became an entire epoch in my life") hide this from everyone for four decades, right up to his death? Why didn't he tell anyone except the author of the publication about his meetings with Lenin?
Looking for an answer to this riddle, it should be borne in mind that S. Vasiliev himself did not read the article prepared by D. Shpirkan. If he had some purely personal reason for not disclosing this case, then the question arises: would he have consented to the publication of a record of his memoirs, and in an edition that he himself had not approved? The issue of moral character for a posthumous publication is not only related to accepted ethical standards, but also to the fact that it was not properly documented. D. Shpirkan writes: "It was only in the summer of 1959 that I first heard from Sergei Dmitrievich a story about his meetings with V. I. Lenin. Unfortunately, Vasiliev was already seriously ill, and this prevented me from finding out a number of details. Four months later, Sergei Dmitrievich was gone." If D. Shpirkan was going to make such an important and significant addition to the biography of S. Vasiliev, she could have shown him her entry and secured his consent for publication. Four months, from August to December 1959, provided such an opportunity. During this period, he was on his feet, moved his family to Moscow, and with the exception of three weeks spent in the hospital, he communicated with people and was quite accessible to the author of the publication. "Finding out a number of details" was quite possible and necessary. But it wasn't done.
The only attempt to document the text was an appeal by D. Shpirkan in 1962 to M. N. Skrypnik, an old Bolshevik woman who worked in Smolny as the second secretary of the Council of People's Commissars. But her consultation was very general. In her letter, she writes about scooters in general — about what good young men they were, and that it was only forty-five years later (which coincides with the time of D. Shpirkan's appeal to her) that she learned that one of them had become the famous co-creator of Chapaev. M. N. Skrypnik did not address questions about whether she personally remembers S. Vasiliev, as well as about his meetings with Lenin.
Some of those who knew Sergei Dmitrievich intimately express doubts about the authenticity of the case described in the publication. The unreliability of this version was told to me by a friend of S. Vasilyeva's youth years, his fellow student at the institute, film director M. Drabkin.
Vasiliev's immediate superior in Odessa and later in the military commandant's office of Petrograd, M. S. Baklach (a member of the party since March 1917), considered the publication of "Three Meetings with Lenin" implausible: "It is doubtful that Lenin, bypassing the military apparatus, personally, through a scooter, passed orders on the movement of military echelons. He didn't do it.
And secondly, if the incident with the scooter driver's mistake had occurred, given the order that existed at that time, with Vladimir Ilyich's strict vigilance and integrity, such an incident could not have remained without proper investigation. I believe that this whole version needs to be thoroughly checked."
The importance of this task determined the breadth of the archival research undertaken, the number of conversations I conducted with people who knew S. Vasiliev well. But neither in the archives, nor in the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, nor in the materials of Lenin's Biographical Chronicle, nor in the memoirs of contemporaries could we find any confirmation of what was stated in the publication. Upon careful inspection, it turned out that in the text itself and in the author's afterword to it, a number of factual inaccuracies were made, even in the description of the biography of S. Vasiliev himself, which casts doubt on the authenticity of the publication. Here are some examples. Le code promo 1xbet est votre allié pour un début réussi. Il active une promotion de bienvenue qui double votre premier dépôt avec un bonus de 100%, pour une valeur maximale de 20000 CFA. La clé pour une session de jeu prolongée et une exploration approfondie de l'univers complet des paris en ligne.