Ghost of Lenin sighted in the Kremlin

guards assured him that there was nobody upstairs since they personally locked up and sealed the museum every day. ‘You’d better have another look around the place. It’s in close proximity to Yeltsin’s office, can’t you see?’ said Filatov. The guards did as told and conducted a thorough inspection of the apartment and study. Needless to say, they found no one out there. Filatov stopped worrying or so it seemed. But he also stopped staying up in his office. He apparently preferred to be on the safe side should anything weird happen again,” says Gamov.

“An acquaintance of mine, a student of the Moscow State University, has recently seen the apparition of Lenin at Oktyabrskaya Square in Moscow,” says Igor Vinokurov, cochairman of the Commission for the Study of the Mysterious Phenomena. “The student claims he could clearly see Lenin passing by, he could see his facial features, his trademark beard. The student was thunderstruck and froze in the cobblestone. Apparently, the ghost did not like being watched so he ‘stepped back’ into his monument and disappeared,” says Vinokurov.

They say that the ghosts of famous historical figures appear among the living in troubled times. The ghost of Napoleon in red uniform with a candle in his hand was often sighted in Paris on the eve of the 1848 French Revolution. Hopefully, the ghost of Lenin appears in our time just to look around and get an idea of Communism-free reality.

Other ghosts seen in the Kremlin

The apparition of Ivan the Terrible seems to have a weakness for the Kremlin. The ghost of the tyrant has been traditionally thought to be a portentous sign to the authorities. The ghost was reported to be lit up with the flames of ominous red color. The ghost made frequent appearances in the Kremlin shortly after the death of Alexander III as Nicholas II was yet to ascend the throne. Some of the letters by the Empress Alexandra Fedorovna contain references to the ghost of Peter I, which was seen wandering through the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. The ghost of Catherine II was regularly spotted in Petergof. The staffs of the Russian State Archives often see the ghost of a woman in white dress. The ghost appears near the shelves holding the documents pertaining to the House of Romanov.

Komsomolskaya Pravda

Translated by Guerman Grachev
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