The life of great people is always shrouded in mystery and myths, conjectures and guesses. Such is the long-standing dispute between the bibliographers of Vladimir Lenin about whether he left behind heirs. The opinions of scientists are diametrically different from statements: the leader was sterile, to "Vladimir Ulyanov is the father of many illegitimate children."
Father or not father?
Both that, and another today is impossible to prove. But finding competent people is certainly interesting. So, historian, professor Akim Arutyunov in his research works, based on biographical documents, debunks the myth that Inessa Armand and Vladimir Ulyanov in 1903 had a common child - a boy Andrei. The researcher proves that Armand and Ulyanov first met only in the spring of 1909 in Paris and did not know each other before. The myth about the boy Andrei wandered around Europe for a very long time, often being the source of all sorts of scandals and speculations. In part, this was facilitated by the special care shown for Andrei by Lenin himself, and then by the Soviet government. He received a higher education, worked as an engineer at the Gorky Automobile Plant, Guard Captain Andrei Armand died in 1944 in the battles near Moscow.
Some researchers attribute paternity to Lenin in relation to the sixth and last child of Inessa Armand - Alexander Steffan, who was born in Germany, the Germans are proud of this myth, support and cultivate it in every possible way. The leader of the world proletariat, according to some biographers, could well have been the father of the twins born to Clara Zetkin: they had a close relationship. Now it is impossible to either confirm or deny.
"Spicy" diagnoses
The most compelling arguments in support of the version that Lenin never had and could not have either relatives or side children were presented by well-known foreign and domestic doctors: German doctors A. Strumpel, O. Bumke, Soviet doctors - P. Osipov, Y. Lopukhin and others. They made public the facts that in his youth Vladimir Ulyanov had been ill with serious ailments. His wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, was also ill; she suffered from Graves' disease.
They were both sterile. But the most intriguing diagnosis, which German neurologists made to Lenin and which was carefully hidden in the USSR for many years, is cerebral vascular syphilis complicated by gonorrheal infection. This version was put forward by the well-known specialist in the history of medicine Ponter Hesse. "Spicy" diagnoses, in his opinion, were the direct cause of the infertility of the head of the first Soviet government. It was these diseases, and not the enemy bullet Kaplan and the subsequent paralysis, which so early carried the great leader to the grave, who left no heirs behind him, except for ideological ones.
