State Duma deputy Ivan Sukharev (LDPR faction) took the initiative to return to the discussion of the issue of burial place of Vladimir Lenin and the transfer of the "Kremlin remains" to one of the capital's cemeteries. The corresponding draft law has been submitted for consideration to the lower house of parliament (available at the Russian Planet website).

According to Sukharev, the purpose of the draft federal law is to create the necessary conditions for the creation and popularization of new symbols. modern Russia, reflecting the historical stage of unity, awareness of the national community of Russians, building a democratic state, free from the dominance of ideology, the symbol of which is Lenin's mausoleum.

According to the bill, the burial of the body of V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin) is made in accordance with the federal law of January 12, 1996 No. 8-FZ "On burial and funeral business."

“Considering the Russian Federation as a modern civilized state, it is impossible to consider acceptable a situation in which the body of a deceased person has been located on Red Square - the country's main square - for many decades, not interred. The existence of Lenin's mausoleum is also unacceptable because the troubles and hardships brought to his people and his state by this man are incalculable, ”the deputy believes.

IN explanatory note It is emphasized that many descendants of emigrants who wish to return to our country cannot do this until now, identifying the mausoleum with the regime that brought so much suffering to their loved ones.

“On the need to bury the body of V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin), church hierarchs have been saying for a long time, noting the incompatibility of the existence of Lenin's mausoleum with religious traditions and the desire of society for Christian values, ”the draft law says.

Sukharev's initiative was supported by his colleagues in the faction. According to Maxim Shingarkin, burials in the center of the capital are not historically justified, since the Bolshevik government came to power through criminal means.

“The Bolshevik coup was essentially a crime against the Russian people. Now we live in a completely different country, but the symbols, the dead, continue to be in the center of the capital. It is necessary once and for all to put an end to this matter and reconcile the Reds and Whites by burying the Bolshevik leaders according to the Orthodox rite, ”Maxim Shingarkin explained to the RP.

The world community will not believe that Russia has changed as long as Lenin's body rests in a mausoleum on Red Square, LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky added.

“Free the country from the red yoke, return the historical name to all cities, squares, streets. Take Lenin's body out of the mausoleum, remove it, condemn the entire ideological Soviet regime, condemn them for the fact that today we are disentangling everything they have done," Zhirinovsky stressed.

According to the parliamentarian, Lenin in the mausoleum inspires people with fears that sooner or later the communists will return to power, and therefore "everyone does not want to live."

“The Kremlin does not understand this, that while Lenin lies, neither Europe nor the majority of educated citizens of Russia will believe that we are a different country,” the politician said.

Mausoleum V.I. Lenin on Red Square

Recall that earlier Vladimir Zhirinovsky called for the burial of Lenin's body, as well as the removal of all graves near the Kremlin wall. “This is a square for a holiday, and this is a cemetery in the center,” the politician noted.

Meanwhile, the government gave a negative review of the bill, citing legal inaccuracies.

According to the conclusion, the document is essentially a draft legal act of individual significance and administrative nature, and not a draft federal law, since it does not define those social relations that require the adoption of a normative legal act of higher legal force of repeated action.

“In addition, the draft law under consideration raises the question of the burial of the body of V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin) due to the fact that such a decision had already been made at a meeting of the II Congress of Soviets of the USSR on January 26, 1924. Therefore, in the proposed legal act, in essence, it should not be about burial, but about reburial.

Considering the above, the government Russian Federation does not support the adoption of this bill, ”the conclusion says. Despite the withdrawal, the bill will nevertheless be considered by the lower house of parliament.

The future of the mausoleum

Lenin died in 1924, on January 21st. On this day, the Soviet government received hundreds of telegrams and letters asking not to bury his body, but to keep it: people just wanted to say goodbye to the deceased. On the morning of January 22, Professor Abrikosov embalmed Lenin's body. In the meantime, the architect Shchusev was given the task of designing and building a crypt in three days.

By January 27, a wooden cube crowned with a pyramid was erected. In 1929, it was decided to replace the wooden mausoleum with a stone one. During the last restoration, carried out in the 1970s, the mausoleum was equipped with the latest instruments and equipment to control all engineering systems, strengthened structures and replaced more than 12,000 marble blocks. There was a guard at the entrance to the mausoleum.

After the events of October 3-4, 1993, it was removed. In almost 92 years that have passed since the death of Lenin, his embalmed body left Red Square for a long time only once - in 1941. At that time, in connection with the threat of the capture of Moscow by the Germans, the body was evacuated to Tyumen. They returned it back in April 1945.

Mausoleum V.I. Lenin. 1924

The question of burying the body of the leader of the world proletariat has been raised more than once. Patriarch Alexy II offered to bring the remains to the ground. Talking to journalists, he said that Red Square should not be turned into a churchyard, that holidays are held here, rock bands perform and, in general, “dance on bones.” He suggested that the remains of the revolutionaries buried in Red Square and Lenin's body be reburied "in some special pantheon or cemetery."

In 1989, director Mark Zakharov proposed to bury Lenin. “We must forgive Lenin, bury him like a human being, and turn the mausoleum into a monument of the era,” he said in the Vzglyad program. In 1993, the Moscow mayor's office proposed that Lenin be removed from the mausoleum and "restore the historical appearance of Red Square". And again silence.

In 1997, Boris Yeltsin supported the mayor's office. “It must lie in the ground, in the ground,” the first president of Russia said then. However, Yeltsin did not dare to take this step and proposed to hold a referendum. In 2001, President Vladimir Putin seemed to agree that Lenin deserved to lie in the ground, but decided not to rush into this matter.

Then the president of the Cultural Foundation Nikita Mikhalkov spoke about it. “There are huge queues, huge, with children, in the heat, to go into a certain room and see the corpse. Not a portrait, not a photograph, not a movie, not a chronicle, behold, a corpse. And the fact that money has been spent and is being spent on a pagan performance is, in general, not normal, ”he said.

Some time ago, the goodbyelenin.ru project was launched on the Internet. An Internet voting was organized there with the question: “Do you support the idea of ​​burying the body of V.I. Lenin? Anyone can still express their opinion on this matter. Anonymously.

There are, of course, statements in which the mausoleum, where the embalmed body of Lenin lies, is compared with monasteries where the incorrupt relics of saints are kept. But, in our opinion, such opinions indicate a misunderstanding of the essence of the issue. After all, the history of Lenin's "glorification" is synchronous with the gross desecration of the relics - Vladimir Ilyich himself initiated a campaign to open the relics.

The Bolsheviks understood that they were encroaching on religious traditions people, and deliberately went for it. Lenin was a God-fighter, a destroyer historical Russia, he, more than any of his associates, worked hard so that nothing was left of her.

Well, we need a serious, deep understanding of the history of the country for the sake of further movement into the future. Goodbye, Lenin! We say goodbye.

The barbarism and denseness of modern Russian Westernizers-liberals are amazing. Would they have tried to hint in any of the NATO countries about destruction or grave-digging, say, in the mausoleum of President Grant in New York (a symbol of triumph in civil war North over South), the mausoleum of the founding father of modern secular Turkey, Atatürk. Or talk about the “tradition to the earth” of the founding father of the Second Commonwealth, Marshal Pilsudski or Emperor Napoleon, whose tombs are on display.

As you can see, the entire argumentation of the necrophobes from United Russia and its liberals sang along with white thread. There is an attempt to settle historical scores with the great Soviet era against the background of the worthlessness of the current government, which is increasingly showing its state failure against the background of the real achievements of the USSR.

Lie first

The main propaganda blow is concentrated on instilling in public opinion the idea of ​​Lenin's burial. And here the vile calculation is obvious - what normal person will object to the burial of the remains of the deceased. Although in the case of Lenin we are talking about reburial.

It seemed obvious to everyone that Lenin was buried. As the founder of the RSFSR and the USSR, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was buried with the highest state honors on January 27, 1924.

By the way, even contemporaries had no doubts that Lenin was buried. Newspaper articles and notes in January-March 1924 were full of headlines: "Lenin's grave", "At the grave of Ilyich", "At Lenin's grave", etc.

And the form of burial was determined by the highest authority of the country - the II All-Union Congress of Soviets - in the ground, at a depth of three meters in the crypt, over which the Mausoleum was erected. By the way, the Congress delegate, Lenin's widow Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, also voted for this decision.

Even considering the burial place of V.I. modern laws Russian Federation. The embalmed body of Lenin rests in a coffin-sarcophagus at a depth of three meters underground, which fully complies with the norms federal law“On Burial and Funeral Affairs” dated 01/12/1996. Article 3 of this law states: “Burial can be carried out by burying the body (remains) of the deceased in the ground (burial in a grave, crypt)”. And the body of Lenin, we recall once again, was buried in a crypt (a vaulted tomb buried in the ground).

It is difficult for an ordinary citizen to notice the substitution of the concepts of "burial" and "reburial" in the massive information flow: after all, the level of directing is very high - all state media, including television, even "independent" news agencies and liberal opposition publications write only about "burial", carefully concealing the substitution concepts.

It is very unprofitable for the political initiators of the reburial to appear in the face of the public in the guise of grave-diggers. Hence the lie about the need for burial, which does not exist.

Lie two

The body of Lenin is put on display, resting un-Christianly, not interred.

Recall the public statement native niece Lenina Olga Dmitrievna Ulyanova: “I have repeatedly stated and will repeat once again that I am categorically against the reburial of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. There are no grounds for this. Even religious ones. The sarcophagus in which he lies is three meters below ground level, which corresponds to burials according to Russian custom and the Orthodox canon.”

Olga Dmitrievna has more than once rebuffed gravediggers who claim that allegedly Lenin was buried not in accordance with folk traditions, outside the framework of the Orthodox cultural tradition. Let us recall, in this regard, also the information of G.A. Zyuganov on the consultations of the leadership of the USSR with representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church during the next reconstruction work in the Mausoleum: “I want to emphasize again that the form of burial of V.I. Lenin does not contradict our national traditions and Orthodox canons. When Red Square was being reconstructed in the USSR 30 years ago, the authorities consulted with representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church. It was confirmed that one of the main conditions of the tradition was observed: the body of Lenin was buried in a tomb more than two meters below ground level.

As to the fact that the body was not interred, the answer has already been given on the basis of the provisions of the Federal Law "On Burial and Funeral Business": burial in a crypt is a form of burial in the ground.

And now about the review of the buried body. Is this really such an exceptional case in the practice of burying great, famous people in countries with a strong Christian cultural tradition?

The most famous example is the burial in the open sarcophagus of the great Russian surgeon Nikolai Pirogov near Vinnitsa. The sarcophagus with the coffin of the great scientist was placed in a crypt, which is one of the forms of burial in the ground and has been on display for almost 130 years. As it is written in the definition of the Holy Synod in St. Petersburg, “so that the disciples and successors of the noble and charitable deeds of the servant of God N.I. Pirogov could see his bright appearance.

And here is an excerpt from the conclusion of the Chairman of the Commission on the Funeral of V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) F. Dzerzhinsky: Lenin) decided to take the measures available modern science for the longest possible preservation of the body.

Than in this case the solution government agency Russian Empire, which was the Holy Synod, which allowed his students and admirers to “behold the bright image” of the deceased scientist Pirogov, differs from the same decision of the supreme body state power represented by the Congress of Soviets and the Central Executive Committee of the USSR? Nothing? Then why is everything calm on the first occasion, and on the second occasion there is universal hubbub?

As you can see, in the case of the noise around the form of Lenin's burial, political cunning, covered up by some pseudo-religious incantations, is on the face.

After all, no one, neither in the case of Pirogov, nor even more so in the case of Lenin, raises the question of copying the practice of treating the relics of saints canonized by the Church. Nobody carries the bodies of Pirogov or Lenin around the country for veneration by believers, as the Church does with the relics of saints. No one is applied to the embalmed bodies of the deceased great people. Everyone understands that their incorruptibility is the recognition of their merits before people (the state, society, various communities, etc.). Only citizens who revere such great statesmen and scientists, entering the crypt, get the opportunity to "behold the bright face."

By the way, in such an ardently Catholic country, a similar approach was taken at the burial of the “head of state”, the founding father of the Second Rzeczpospolita, Marshal Pilsudski, whose relationship with the official church was also far from cloudless. He changed from Catholicism to Protestantism, then back to Catholicism. Yes, and the May coup of 1926, arranged by the founder of the state, was very bloody. Yes, and in the creation of concentration camps, Pilsudski distinguished himself very well. But… the founder of the state. Although Catholic Church even after the burial, she was engaged in dragging his remains across the Wawel crypts, which provoked a conflict between the episcopate and President Mostitsky.

Recall that Pilsudski was buried in 1935 in the Wawel Castle, in a crypt in a glass coffin. But embalming proved ineffective. As a result, only a small window was left, which is currently closed.

The original glass coffin of Marshal Piłsudski, founding father of the Second Commonwealth, before being transferred to the crypt under the Silver Bells tower in Wawel.

Lie three

Attempts continue to be made to convince society that it is necessary to fulfill the last will of Lenin, who allegedly bequeathed to bury himself next to his mother at the Volkovo cemetery in Leningrad. This lie has been circulating around the world since it was first voiced at one of the meetings of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, broadcast on live, a certain Karyakin. Then the fable was picked up by the dad of the current socialite and Putin's mentor Anatoly Sobchak.

From the statements of Olga Dmitrievna Ulyanova it is unambiguously clear: “Attempts to prove that there is a will that he should be buried at the Volkovo cemetery are untenable. There is no such document and could not be; our family also never had conversations on this topic. Vladimir Ilyich died at a fairly young age - at 53, and naturally, he thought more about life than about death. In addition, given the historical era in which Lenin lived, his nature, the character of a true revolutionary, I am sure he would not have written a will on this topic. Vladimir Ilyich was a very modest man who cared least of all about himself. Most likely, he would have left a testament to the country, to the people - how to build a perfect state.”

Scientist and publicist A.S. Abramov, Chairman of the Board of the Charitable public organization(Foundation) for the Preservation of the Lenin Mausoleum more than once cited in the media the response of the RTSKhIDNI (this is the former Central Party Archive) to the request of the Yeltsin administration regarding Lenin's will. The official response to the President of the Russian Federation said that "there is not a single document of Lenin, his relatives or relatives regarding Lenin's last will to be buried in a certain Russian cemetery."

A.S. Abramov is right, arguing that even from an everyday point of view, the arguments about the Volkovo cemetery are completely false. After all, Lenin is already resting next to the widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and sister Maria Ulyanova, whose ashes are in the necropolis near the Kremlin wall.

Lie Four

It is necessary to remove the Mausoleum and the Necropolis of the heroes of the Soviet era, since Red Square cannot be turned into a cemetery. The historical illiteracy of the authors of this argument is obvious.

The territory of St. Basil's Cathedral or the "Cathedral of the Intercession on the Moat" is also an ancient cemetery. That United Russia gentlemen, will you blow up the cathedral and dig up the graves, so that it would be more comfortable for you to organize skating rinks and variety shows? Do other sovereign burials in the Kremlin cathedrals prevent you from having fun?

Red Square in its current form is a place of power formed in the RSFSR and the USSR. Here is a concentration of symbols of all historical eras - from Muscovite Rus' (the Place of Execution played the role of the place of power here) to the USSR (the state tribune and the burial places of the founding father of the RSFSR and the heroes of the Soviet era). And the current rulers of the Russian Federation, organizing parades in honor of the Victory Day of the USSR in World War II, de facto recognize this highest status of Red Square.

On a large marketplace, which Red Square was before Lenin and Stalin, Victory parades are not held. For some reason, state ceremonies will obviously not look at the Cherkizovsky market.

Therefore, how uncomfortable and unpleasant you, temporary gentlemen from United Russia, will have to endure when performing rituals of power on Red Square and Lenin in the Mausoleum, and Stalin's grave, and all the burial places of the heroes of the era of the RSFSR and the USSR. Without this, the current government does not even have the appearance of historical legitimacy.

How else do the peoples honor their great statesmen

Burials of Moscow sovereigns in the Archangel Cathedral of the Kremlin

This is how the tomb of Kuzma Minin originally looked in Nizhny Novgorod

Tomb of Emperor Napoleon in Republican France

Pantheon in Rome. Since the Renaissance, it has been used as a tomb. Among those who were buried here are such great people as Raphael and Carracci, the composer Corelli, the architect Peruzzi and the two kings of Italy - Victor Emmanuel II and Umberto I

NY. USA. Triumph of the North over the South. Mausoleum of American President Ulysses Grant (1897) in Manhattan's Riverside Park. World War I photograph of warships sailing past Grant's mausoleum.

Mausoleum of the founding father of the modern Republic of Turkey, Ataturk.

As you can see, in the NATO countries with civilization and mausoleums, everything is in order.

Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation S.P. Obukhov

Deputies from the Liberal Democratic Party and the United Russia party on Thursday, April 20, submitted to the State Duma a bill on the burial of the body of Vladimir Lenin. This was reported to Interfax by one of the initiators of the amendments to the law "On Burial and Funeral Affairs", a member of the LDPR faction Vladimir Sysoev. Together with him, the draft law was prepared by party colleagues Ivan Sukharev and Alexander Kurdyumov, as well as three United Russia members - Yevgeny Marchenko, Nikolai Brykin and Vitaly Bakhmetyev. However, the initiative is unlikely to be accepted, as it became known that the EP faction, which has a majority in the lower house, is drafting a bill.

Deputy Speaker of the State Duma, United Russia Sergei Neverov told RBC earlier that the three United Russia members who signed the bill did not coordinate the initiative with the faction.

The authors of the bill propose to supplement the article "Reburial" with a separate paragraph, which will say that "the remains of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) are subject to reburial." At the same time, the text emphasizes that "the procedure, terms and place of reburial are determined by the government, taking into account the proposals of the interdepartmental commission." As Sukharev told RBC, they did not prescribe a clear timeframe for the reburial of the leader of the world proletariat, since the issue is still debatable in society.

The deputy recalled that the head of the Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, had repeatedly advocated the burial of Lenin. "This is the faction's position," he specified. “Russia is not Ancient Egypt, and it’s wrong that we have a mummy in the center of the capital. In addition, let me remind you that Lenin was still a Christian, he married (Nadezhda) Krupskaya,” the parliamentarian said.

EP faction will not support the bill

Meanwhile, Deputy Secretary of the United Russia General Council, member of the Duma Committee on Information Policy, information technology and communications Yevgeny Revenko on Thursday, April 20, on his page in Facebook wrote that "colleagues did not consult with the faction, let alone with the party." "We did not discuss this initiative. This means that it has no prospects. Moreover, our faction seeks to discuss laws that are aimed at strengthening harmony in society, and not at splitting," the deputy noted.

According to Revenko, "such initiatives cause at least bewilderment." He reminded his colleagues that "when making certain statements and actions, it is important to remember which party and faction you belong to."

In turn, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation perceived the next project on the burial of Lenin as an information attack in response to criticism of the government, which was heard from the Communists in Lately. This was stated to "Interfax" by the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Sergei Obukhov. He noted that on Thursday, a number of notable publications appeared in various media, one way or another relating to the Communist Party, including reports on the prepared bill on the burial of Lenin.

Obukhov said that recently he "had discussions with representatives of religious organizations on this issue, everyone admitted that there were no fundamental objections in this regard." In addition, he added, "there is a law on burial, article three says that burial in the ground is in a grave or crypt." "The mausoleum is a crypt. All other arguments are from the evil one," Obukhov said.

More than half of Russians are for the burial of Lenin

Let us recall that, according to tradition, on the eve of Vladimir Lenin's birthday on April 22, discussions are intensifying in society about the burial of his embalmed body, which is currently located in the Mausoleum on Red Square.

Sociologists also conduct surveys on this topic. So, from the latest study by the Levada Center, it turned out that 58% of Russians support the proposal to remove the body of Vladimir Lenin from the Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow and bury it. 32% proposed to bury Lenin's body near the Kremlin wall. 26% believe that the funeral should take place at the Volkovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg.

31% of respondents said that Lenin's body should be left in the Mausoleum. 11% found it difficult to answer. Last year, the idea of ​​burial was supported by 60%, leaving Lenin's body in the Mausoleum on Red Square was supported by 32% of respondents. According to sociologists, over the past ten years, the corresponding shares of responses have not changed much.

There is no consensus in the ROC on this issue. In early April, the head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, called for the burial of Lenin's body, stating that "streets and squares should not be named after executioners," "the names of terrorists and revolutionaries should not be immortalized in our cities," and "the mummified bodies of these people should not lay down and be exposed to the public."

At the same time, in March, after LDPR deputy Ivan Sukharev sent a request to Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko asking them to consider dismantling the Mausoleum, the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church criticized the idea. The first deputy chairman of the synodal department for relations between the Russian Orthodox Church, society and the media, Alexander Shchipkov, called the idea extremely untimely.

President Vladimir Putin stated in early 2016 that he believes some of Lenin's ideas led to the destruction of historical Russia. At the same time, speaking about the possible reburial of the leader, he called for a careful approach to this issue so as not to split the society.

A group of United Russia deputies and members of the LDPR faction submitted amendments to the law “On Burial” to the State Duma, which propose to establish a procedure for the reburial of historical figures, including Vladimir Lenin. The authors of the project believe that the location of the mausoleum on Red Square is contrary to the law on burial and point out that the body of the Bolshevik leader is no longer a "symbol of the unification of the nation." At the same time, the draft describes the procedure for reburial itself, and not its timing. The initiative was criticized not only in the Communist Party, but also in the leadership of United Russia.

The authors of the initiative to reburial the body of Vladimir Lenin were members of the LDPR faction Vladimir Sysoev, Ivan Sukharev, Alexander Kurdyumov, as well as United Russia members Yevgeny Marchenko and Nikolai Brykin. The deputies note that today the law "On Burial" practically does not regulate cases in which reburial is required, in particular of historical figures.

The project emphasizes that in order to consider the issue of reburial of historical figures, “whose activities influenced the course of historical events", the government of the Russian Federation creates interdepartmental commissions". Such a commission, the draft says, should also determine "the procedure, timing and place for the reburial of the remains of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin)." The deputies cite the position of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who stated that the country was “a quarter of a century late” with the reburial of the communist leader, they refer to Vladimir Putin, who called for treating this issue “carefully”. The explanatory note also mentions a recent survey by the Levada Center, according to which more than 50% of citizens spoke in favor of burying the body of Vladimir Lenin.

“The authors of the bill do not aim to conduct a historical analysis of the events associated with the burial of Lenin, and do not attempt to justify the need for reburial of the remains based on an assessment of the role of his personality in the history of the state,” the explanatory note to the project says. However, the authors believe that in itself "Lenin's body is neither a symbol of the era, nor a symbol of the unification of the nation." The deputies cite the text of the resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of January 25, 1924, which refers to the "day of the funeral", from which they conclude that the presence of the leader's body in the mausoleum is "temporary". The adoption of the law, the explanatory note emphasizes, will ensure the possibility of reburial "at the time and in such a manner that will correspond to social moods and correspond to the political and historical moment." The very fact of the presence of the mausoleum, the project says, is contrary to the law "On burial and funeral business", therefore the remains of Vladimir Lenin "lie outside the legal field."

One of the authors of the bill, Ivan Sukharev, believes that the mausoleum can be moved and turned into a museum of Vladimir Lenin, but "not in the heart of Russia." “I am not a supporter of conspiracy theories, but many believe that as long as Lenin's body is on Red Square, there will be no breakthrough,” the deputy said.

In the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the burial bill is considered as a response to criticism of the government, which comes from the party. “There is a political struggle going on, all sorts of arguments are mixed in here. There is a law on burial, article three says that burial in the ground is in a grave or crypt. The mausoleum is a crypt. All other arguments are from the evil one, ”said Sergei Obukhov, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

The leadership of United Russia did not support the bill. “United Russia seeks to discuss laws that are aimed at strengthening harmony in society, and not at splitting,” wrote