MOSCOW, POST-1924:Like his father before him, Prof.Ilya Borisovich Zbarskyspent 18 years tending to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s embalmed body.
Two or three times a week we would wash the body with a special solution to remove mold and blemishes, and once a year we would immerse the body in a special chemical bath … After his death his brain had been removed and sent to a special laboratory set up to look for signs of genius. They didn’t find anything particularly interesting.
