Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Ilya Zbarsky

  • Embalming Vladimir Lenin

    One of the last photographs of Lenin with his sister and one of his doctors. May 15th 1923. Photo by Maria Ulyanova. Via Wikimedia. In 1997, two years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ilya Zbarsky wrote a book about embalming the body of Vladimir Lenin, a process in which both he and his…