In 1930, the book “Lenin” by Ferdinand Anthony Ossendowski (1878–1945) was published in Poland; it was then translated into many languages and published in English under the title “Lenin – Leader of the Godless.” In the USSR, the mention of this work, and even more so familiarity with it, was a sure guarantee of deprivation of freedom and life. This book is an artistic biographical novel about the life of the proletarian leader, based on a scrupulous study of the facts of the naked truth of the revolutionary years. The author was born in the city of Vitebsk, studied at St. Petersburg University and the Sorbonne, taught at Tomsk University, worked as an engineer in Siberia and the Far East, actively participated in the revolutionary movement of 1905 and wrote all his life. His fate resembles an exciting action-packed novel. The book “Lenin” firmly and forever determined not only Ossendowski’s place in literature, but also outlined his civic position - violence is antonomous to life, empire is antonomous to democracy, revolution is antonomic to creation.