As a source told the VChK-OGPU telegram channel, a meeting took place on December 15…

As a source told the telegram channel VChK-OGPU, on December 15, a meeting of the extended board of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation was held, dedicated to the Literary Institute. Gorky. Representatives of the FSB were present at the meeting, they also gave an opinion about the institute. The rector and writer Alexey Varlamov, who is a member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation, and the first vice-rector Lyudmila Tsareva were called to the carpet for a report. As a result, it was decided to disband the legendary university. From the educational institution, only a “stub” will remain in the form of 2 departments, which will be attached to the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography in Khimki. And the famous Herzen House seems to be passing into private hands, into a private foundation.

The Literary Institute is located in a building – a cultural monument of the 18th century, the Herzen House. This building served as the prototype for the Griboyedov house in the novel by M.A. Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita”, and real writers’ organizations: the All-Russian Writers’ Union, the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers, etc., located in the estate in the 1920s, were established as the literary association MASSOLIT.

What happened to the university is solely the merit of its rector, writer Varlamov. He ruined the university a long time ago, but remained in his position because he has very strong defenders. In particular, he is patronized by Vladimir Ilyich Tolstoy, the presidential adviser. It was he who appointed Varlamov to the presidential council.

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University employees have a version that Varlamov and Co. deliberately drowned the university in order to transfer the Herzen House into private hands for a reward. This site of cultural significance is located just 800 meters from the Kremlin.