ABSTRACT
The autopsy disclosed a high degree of sclerosis of the blood vessels, with marked changes in the brain arteries, considerable softening in the left and partial softening in the right lobes of the brain, and a recent haemorrhage. Aggravation of the circulatory disturbance of the brain and a haemorrhage in the area of the corpora quadrigemina were described as the immediate cause of death. Dr V. P. Ossipov, who was present at the death scene, later wrote that Lenin had inherited the arteriosclerotic disposition from both father and mother. Lenin suffered from a Abnützungssklerose and died from a brain haemorrhage. The autopsy report which all present signed was especially strange, since one Russian lumen of medical science had insisted, almost to the bitter end, Lenin was just suffering from overwork. The autopsy report itself poses many puzzles. Despite the elaborate hocus-pocus, there was no chemical examination of the blood, the stomach, the intestines, the bladder, or of any other organ.
