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L'ultimo viaggio di Lenin is a novel written by Francesco Pala and published in 2024, the year in which it also won the Italian national literary prize dedicated to Neri Pozza.
Plot
editThe body of Lenin, who died in 1924, is embalmed on Stalin's orders . Following the Nazi invasion of 1941, it is decided to move the body to Siberia, in Tyumen. Since then it has been kept in a school and guarded by 6 soldiers. One day, a soldier has the feeling that Lenin has opened his eyes and undergoes a lobotomy due to hallucination. On 29 July 1942, everyone flees the city of Tyumen, following the news of the expansion of the invasion of the Nazi regime. Only Sergeant Dorotov, the soldier Antonov and a woman named Olga remain. They take away the body, which is transformed into a pivot around which a new state, Lenina, will be born. In 1953 Stalin dies, while in 1964 Nastasya is sent from Lenina to Moscow in search of three dissidents.