From 1917 to the present day, interest in the personality of V.I. has not waned all over the world. Lenin. Despite the sometimes polar assessment of his policies, no one denies that he was a statesman of global scale. Revolutionary, founder of the Soviet state, chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (government) of the RSFSR, ideologist and creator of the Third (Communist) International, Lenin aroused close attention from his contemporaries. In the book now presented to readers, with his impressions of meetings with V.I. Lenin is shared by the Swiss socialist F. Platten, who came to Russia with Lenin in 1917, the American journalist D. Reed, a witness of the October Revolution, and the English writer G. Wells, who traveled to Russia in 1920. They give many interesting details about V.I. Lenin, evaluate his activities as the leader of the Russian and world revolution.