A book that will shed new light on Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's last days will be published early next year, one of the co-authors, Professor Sergei Devyatov, said on Wednesday.
The book is a guide to the country house outside Moscow where Stalin died on March 5, 1953.
Built in the early 1930s, the two-storey house retains much of the original interior and the dictator's personal effects, including a gramophone given to him by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill after World War Two.
It was here that Stalin, voted the third greatest Russian in a 2008 TV poll, gave the last orders of his 30-year rule that saw millions of people sent to labor camps, Devyatov said.
Seventeen meters beneath the house is a fortified underground bunker, built as war raged in 1942.
MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti)
