"This man is a very respectable military man": on the establishment of a personal national retirement benefit to V.M. Lermontov
... addressed to the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR V. M. Molotov; a biography of V. M. Lermontov; a personal personnel record sheet; a mandate of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Caucasian Front granting the right to inspect stud farms and requisition breeding horses; and certificates of wounds. The analyzed materials confirm the fact that documents of applicants for personal national retirement benefit from among relatives of Russian writers and poets underwent preliminary ...