The first attempt on Lenin's life, which is hardly talked about

When it comes to the assassination attempt on the first leader of the world proletariat, V.I. Lenin, what is usually meant is the shot fired by Fanny Kaplan on August 30, 1918.

Meanwhile, the opponents of communism had made attempts to eliminate the leader before. All of them ended in failure, so these incidents are not given much importance.

At the same time, they were undoubtedly a prologue to that fateful August day.

The assassination attempt on Vladimir Lenin on January 1, 1918, in Petrograd was one of the first major plots against the Bolshevik leader to occur after the October Revolution. Although not as well known as the subsequent assassination attempt in August of that year, it was already indicative of the extremely tense political climate and the growing opposition to the new government from its opponents, including monarchists, anarchists, and Socialist Revolutionaries.

As for the assassination attempt itself, it occurred when Lenin, together with his sister Maria Ulyanova and his friend, the Swiss socialist Friedrich Platten, were driving through the streets of Petrograd in a car. At one point along the route, unknown persons opened fire, trying to kill the leader.

Upon arrival at Smolny, where the government residence was located, it turned out that Platten had received a slight wound to his arm when he tried to protect Lenin. The leader himself and his sister were not injured. Several bullet holes were found in the body of the car.

The main version of the assassination attempt, according to the Cheka, was the participation of the cadet Dmitry Shakhovsky, a former deputy of the State Duma and member of the Provisional Government. According to historian Richard Pipes, Nikolai Nekrasov, who later changed his surname to Golgofsky, was also involved in organizing the attack.

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[Ross xnumx]

All the attempts on VIL's life only speak to what an extraordinary personality the leader of the world's first socialist state was and how much the enemies of socialism hated him...

[your1970]

All the assassination attempts on VIL only speak to what an extraordinary personality the leader was

ALL assassination attempts always indicate that the given leader is an extraordinary figure at the very least. Only such people are sought to be removed from the field at any cost.
And the fact that there are always people interested in their death is also a fact.
F. Castro certainly surpasses all leaders in the number of assassination attempts.

[fif21]

Quote: your1970

Only such people should be removed from the field at any cost.

The events in Pertograd described in the article took place, but it was an ordinary mugging by Lenka Panteleev's gang. Lenin and his companions were simply robbed and had their passports and weapons taken. After reading the documents about who they had come across, Lenka returned to kill the robbed, but did not find them. And the propagandists have already blown it out of proportion - an assassination attempt on the leader of the world proletariat!

[Seamaster]

Did you read it in Murzilka or in Vesyoliye Kartinki?
Not Lenka Panteleev and not January 01, 1919.
It reads:
On Christmas Eve, January 6, 1919, at about 17 p.m., not far from the Sokolnichesky District Council (presumably on Sokolnichesky Highway under the Mitkovskaya connecting railway bridge), six bandits stopped a car. They were Koshelkov, Vasily Zaitsev ("Hare"), Fyodor Alekseyev ("Frog"), Aleksey Kirillov ("Lyonka the Shoemaker"), Ivan Volkov ("Horse") and Vasily Mikhailov. The bandits needed the car to rob an arcade on Lubyanka. In the car were the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR Vladimir Lenin, his sister Maria Ulyanova, Lenin's personal driver Stepan Gil and security guard Ivan Chabanov[5]. Lenin ordered the car to be stopped, mistaking the bandits for a Red Army patrol. Threatening with weapons, Koshelkov and his friends ordered all four of them to get out of the car. Lenin tried to show the bandits his documents, saying: “What’s the matter? I’m Lenin!”, but Koshelkov, not hearing his name, said: “The hell with you, that you’re Levin. And I’m Koshelkov, the master of the city at night”[6].

After searching everyone, the bandits took Lenin's documents and Browning pistol, and then left in a car. On the way, Koshelkov finally looked at the documents and told his accomplices to turn back, deciding to take Lenin hostage in order to exchange him for the Butyrka prisoners. Returning back, the bandits tried to find Lenin, but were unable to and left, soon abandoning the car[5].(C)

Are you a liberal?
No wonder we got stuck in the 1990s.

[fif21]

Quote: Seamaster

Are you a liberal?

The essence of it, Lenka Panteleev or Koshelkov, does not change. It was a robbery, not an attempt. Are you one of those lying communists? Who turned Kirov's murder on the grounds of jealousy into repressions of the unwanted? Although the case with Lenin was described correctly, but the conclusions were invented. Koshelkov from the big bell tower, on the Butyrka prisoners But he understood instantly who had become his mortally dangerous enemy.

[Seamaster]

How old are you if Koshelkov explained everything to you so precisely? About what he doesn't care about and what he doesn't?
And that Lenin "became a mortally dangerous enemy" to him? This is for an illiterate cab driver - a criminal?
And here people were chatting that the communists of that time considered criminals to be “socially close”.
P.S. The point is that you lied TWICE in your initial comment: both the name of the bandit and the date of the attack. Conclusion: if you don't know history, don't bother criticizing the author of the article. Do some coloring or put together some Lego.

[fif21]

Quote: Seamaster

Conclusion: if you don't know history, don't bother criticizing the author of the article. Do some coloring or build some Lego.

I really only know the history of the CPSU and the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) superficially. Saved my brain from being washed. If the author is lying that this is an attempt, I will lie twice as much! Even the illiterate Koshelkov knew that if you rob a bourgeois, you will be scolded. Rob the authorities, and they will find you and kill you. So to speak, beat the communists with their own weapons.

[Seamaster]

And was there WHAT to wash?
Did you read the article, or just the title, and then immediately refute it?
It reads:
On one section of the route, unknown persons opened fire, trying to kill the leader.
Upon arrival at Smolny, where the government residence was located, it turned out that Platten had received a slight wound to his arm when he tried to protect Lenin. The leader himself and his sister were not injured. Several bullet holes were found in the body of the car.

If they shoot immediately, without trying to stop, is it an assassination attempt or a robbery?

[fif21]

Quote: Seamaster

And was there WHAT to wash?

Unlike many, he was able to analyze what newspapers, radio and later television were saying, and what was happening in life.

Quote: Seamaster

Upon arrival at Smolny, where the government’s residence was located, it turned out that Platten had received a slight injury to his arm when he tried to protect Lenin.

Who was Platten trying to protect from, or from what, from the bullets?

Quote: Seamaster

If they shoot immediately, without trying to stop, is it an assassination attempt or a robbery?

I have never heard or read about this episode. Share the source of information before 1990. It looks like a remake. And who needs it now?

[Seamaster]

A typical answer from a STUPID liberal: "If I haven't heard it/don't know it, then it doesn't exist/didn't happen. And anyway - it's a lie of the communists. That's it!"
Move from "Funny Pictures" to coloring books - your level.

[your1970]

but it was an ordinary robbery by Lenka Panteleev's gang
No, these are two. Different events in different years

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: your1970

F. Castro certainly surpasses all leaders in the number of assassination attempts.

Since the time of the GMS I have not heard of any assassination attempts on Russian leaders...But this does not mean anything at all.

[your1970]

Since the time of the GMS, I have not heard of any assassination attempts on Russian leaders.
At least 3 assassination attempts on VVP look quite realistic - at Sobchak's funeral, in Belgrade and in Baku.
Vika writes about 12

Someday we'll find out......

[Traktoris]

Continuing your line of thought about the assassination attempts on the leader of the world proletariat (and his greatness in this world), I conclude that ALL TYRANTS, tsars, emperors, sultans, etc. were even greater personalities because the assassination attempts on them were orders of magnitude greater!

[GGV]

And were there only assassination attempts on tyrants? And you also have to look at the time interval.

[Ross xnumx]

Quote from Traktoris

Continuing your line of thought about the assassination attempts on the leader of the world proletariat (and his greatness in this world), I conclude

Your conclusion is incorrect, because the tyrants of the world in the form of kings, emperors, kings, sultans and even African leaders were overthrown purely for selfish purposes and even at the request of relatives to ascend the throne. This is ordinary greed and lust for power, there is no political background here. They wanted to improve their position in society, that's all...

[Traktoris]

These are your conclusions, made on the basis of your empty inferences. Or do you have statistics on assassination attempts on tsars and others, and most importantly, their confessions of the purpose of the assassination attempt. For example, the Decembrist rebellion or, for a more precise understanding, the assassination attempt of Lenin's brother (Alexander) on the tsar. In your opinion, he also tried to improve his position?

[Ross xnumx]

Quote from Traktoris

Do you think he also tried to improve his situation?

And whose? The situation of those peasants of the Russian Empire - 90% of the country's population?
They invented various socialists and engaged in terrorism.

[Traktoris]

If we follow your approach, then Lenin, the most bloodthirsty and the one who wanted to improve his own situation! And Mr. KAPLAN, whose situation did you want to improve? And Mr. Kerensky, being at the top of power, what did he want to improve?

[Luminman]

[quote=Traktoris were even greater personalities because the attempts on their lives were orders of magnitude greater![/quote]For example, there were more than forty attempts on Hitler's life...

[75 Sergey]

And even now they continue to hate and... fear.
And then galoshes - damn it!

[andrey martov]

The assassination attempts have not stopped yet, although now they are attacking the mausoleum and the body of the leader lying there. They want to take him out of the mausoleum and finally bury his body along with his ideas. . .

[solar]

...Platten, who first grabbed Vladimir Ilyich's head (they were sitting in the back) and pulled it aside, but Ilyich began to assure us that we were mistaken and that he did not think that it was shooting. After the shots, the driver sped up, then, turning the corner, stopped and, opening the car doors, asked: "Is everyone alive?" - "Did they really shoot?" Ilyich asked him. "Of course not," the driver answered, "I thought that none of you were alive. We got off lucky. If we had hit the tire, we would not have left. And anyway, it was very difficult to drive - fog, and even then we were taking a risk."

Everything around was truly white from the thick St. Petersburg fog.

Having reached Smolny, we began to examine the car. It turned out that the body had been pierced in several places by bullets, some of them had flown right through, breaking through the windshield. We immediately discovered that Comrade Platten's hand was covered in blood. The bullet had apparently hit him when he was pulling Vladimir Ilyich's head back, and had torn the skin off his finger.

They most likely shot at random; there was fog.
By the way, saving Lenin's life didn't help Platten - in 1938 he was sent to a camp for 4 years, but he was not released in 1942. :((

On March 12, 1942, Platten's term of imprisonment expired, but he was not released. The last letter from the camp was written on March 25, 1942, not by Platten himself, but in his own words. It was reported that Platten was in a grave condition, that he was lying in the hospital "weak and plump."

He died on April 22, 1942, on the anniversary of Lenin's birth. The official certificate issued to relatives stated that Platten, "while serving his sentence, died of cardiovascular disease." He was buried in a common grave, and the exact burial place is unknown.

According to other sources, on April 22, Platten died in the camp under unclear circumstances: since Platten could not work, the guard took Platten into the bushes and shot him. This version was also confirmed by Platten's son, speaking in the fall of 1988 in Moscow at an evening dedicated to the 105th anniversary of his father's birth. According to him, in 1958 he received a letter of repentance from a former camp guard, who wrote that, on the oral order of the camp commander, he personally took Platten outside the fence and shot him, because his camp term had ended[7].

[rotfuks]

When I was a Soviet pioneer, I read a story in a magazine about how Lenin was attacked late at night by robbers who stole his car. I don't remember the details, but Lenin was driving with his wife and a bodyguard in the car and the armed robbers stopped the car, forced everyone out onto the road and drove away in the car. The robbers simply didn't recognize Lenin. At the very beginning of the robbery, the guard even pulled out a revolver and wanted to shoot, but Lenin stopped him with gestures. The story was presented as a story about Lenin's peacefulness. Three days later, the Cheka took the car from the robbers and returned it to the garage. At that time, this story was not considered an assassination attempt on Ilyich. But today, robbing the leader of the state would be an assassination attempt.

[fif21]

Quote: rotfuks

When I was a Soviet pioneer,

But they didn't accept me into the Pioneers. The diagnosis was - unworthy.
But I heard this story too. And now I'm not interested in it. They couldn't bring down Trump twice, and they couldn't blow him up either. Now that's a detective story, performed by democrats.

[your vsr 66-67]

Quote: fif21

Quote: rotfuks

When I was a Soviet pioneer,

But they didn't accept me into the Pioneers. The diagnosis was - unworthy.
But I heard this story too. And now I'm not interested in it. They couldn't bring down Trump twice, and they couldn't blow him up either. Now that's a detective story, performed by democrats.

Why lie?! Everyone was accepted into the Pioneers!! At least that's how it was in my time.
Yes, not everyone was accepted into the Komsomol.

[fif21]

Quote: your vsr 66-67

Why lie?! Everyone was accepted into the Pioneers!!

So my case is an exception to the rule. Although there were three of us in the class who weren’t accepted.

[Konnick]

I don’t remember the details, but Lenin was driving with his wife and a security guard in a car and armed robbers stopped the car and forced everyone out onto the road and drove away in the car.

Imagine, in January 1918 in Petrograd and in January 1919 in Moscow, with the rampant crime of the Civil War. to travel practically without protection... and compare modern trips with motorcades. Those people were amazingly brave and like today's...

[your1970]

Those people were amazingly brave, and just like today's...
They were surprisingly naive - that's true. And as soon as I came realist Stalin - serious security appeared. Stalin drew conclusions from the attempts on Lenin's life, and politicians were being killed abroad almost in droves

[Konnick]

Stalin drew conclusions from the assassination attempts on Lenin

No, he drew conclusions later.

The first assassination attempt took place in 1931. A White Guard officer and spy working for Great Britain, a certain Ogarev, on November 6 on Moscow's Ilyinka Street, grabbed a pistol from his holster and tried to shoot Joseph Dzhugashvili. But he was stopped by an NKVD officer who was following him. After this incident, Stalin was advised to stop walking around the city.

Before that, he walked with one guard. And after Kirov's murder, he was seriously guarded.

[Seamaster]

Well, in January 1918 there was no civil war yet. Kornilov's Ice March was in February-March 1918, but in terms of scale and area it was more of a clash between two armed formations.
And the REAL civil war began in July 1918 with the uprising of the Socialist Revolutionaries and the rebellion of the White Czechs.
And off it went...

[solar]

This is a well-known story. The robbers did not know who they were attacking. Yakov Koshelkov's gang.

On Christmas Eve, January 6, 1919, at about 17 p.m., not far from the Sokolnichesky District Council (presumably on Sokolnichesky Highway under the Mitkovskaya connecting railway bridge), six bandits stopped a car. ... The bandits needed a car to rob an arcade on Lubyanka. In the car were the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR Vladimir Lenin, his sister Maria Ulyanova, Lenin's personal driver Stepan Gil, and a security guard Ivan Chabanov[5]. Lenin ordered the car to be stopped, mistaking the bandits for a Red Army patrol. Threatening with weapons, Koshelkov and his friends ordered all four of them to get out of the car. Lenin tried to show the bandits his documents, saying: "What's the matter? I'm Lenin!", but Koshelkov, not hearing the name, said: "The hell with you, that you're Levin. And I'm Koshelkov, the master of the city at night"[6].
After searching everyone, the bandits took Lenin's documents and Browning pistol, and then left in a car. On the way, Koshelkov finally looked at the documents and told his accomplices to turn back, deciding to take Lenin hostage in order to exchange him for the Butyrka prisoners. Returning back, the bandits tried to find Lenin, but were unable to and left, soon abandoning the car[5].... This episode is described by Lenin in his work "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder" as an example of how the leader of the revolutionary proletariat should not unnecessarily risk his life and resist the bandits who attacked him - it is much wiser to submit to their demands and entrust the search to the competent authorities.

Koshelkov was killed only six months later. Lenin's Browning was found on him.

[rotfuks]

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This is a well-known story. The robbers did not know who they were attacking. Yakov Koshelkov's gang

Thank you. Almost everything is as I read in childhood. But in fact it was a real attempt on the life of the leader of the world proletariat. The fact that it all ended without tragic consequences is amazing.

[Alexander]

Yes, this was an attempt at robbery by common criminals! Then the leader was shot and his head was cut off, if I'm not mistaken!

[Tarasios]

Quote: ROSS 42

All the attempts on VIL's life only speak to what an extraordinary personality the leader of the world's first socialist state was and how much the enemies of socialism hated him...

That's true. But I'll add just for the sake of it: yes, assassination attempts are made on practically all more or less "promoted from the masses" individuals. Just look at the recent ones, two assassination attempts on Trump. It's hard to suspect him of being "hated by the enemies of socialism". Or look at rappers getting shot all the time. And they're clearly far from politics.

[Evlokh]

Over time, more and more new "historical facts" appear about famous figures from different eras, usually not documented. The image of the individual is distorted: either exalted or dethroned, depending on the political order of the Powers That Be!
Only eyewitnesses of the events can know the truth, and only documents of that time can confirm it. And so, there is a popular saying: "Seven miles to heaven and all through the forest"!!!