The Last Tartarian Died in 1952 — The Secret About Tartaria He Left Behind

In November 1952, in a small apartment in Msk , an 83-year-old man asked his grandson to bring paper and a pen . Doctors had told the family he had only days left . He said they erased this. When I'm gone, no one will remember. For more than 7 hours, he spoke without stopping . 2 days later, he died. And his grandson wrote down everything he said . That notebook still exists . It was not found in a museum. It was not preserved by any institution . It was discovered by accident . In 2019, at a small estate sale in Montreal , a box of old documents was put out for sale in the basement of an apartment building . [music] Inside were Soviet travel papers, immigration forms, family photographs , and letters written in cerillic that no one in the family could read anymore . At the bottom of the box was a small brown leather notebook cracked at the , softened by years of handling. . The seller explained that the box had , who had immigrated from the Soviet Union in 1956 . She had never spoken about her life before immigration . After her death, the box remained untouched in a closet for more than 30 years . The notebook was part of that box . When it was [music] examined, several details stood out immediately . The paper was consistent with Soviet era production from the early 1950s. . The binding [music] matched notebooks issued through state suppliers . The ink composition matched formulations used during that period . These details were later confirmed by document analysts . Inside the first 20 pages contained ordinary daily [music] notes , grocery lists, weather observations, complaints about neighbors , work schedules.