vicemag: A Visit to Moscow’s Brain Institute, Where Stalin’s Brain Is Kept in a Jar On April 14, 1930, the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky committed suicide in his Moscow apartment. His closest friends, including the writer Yuri Olesha, rushed to

vicemag: A Visit to Moscow’s Brain Institute, Where Stalin’s Brain Is Kept in a Jar On April 14, 1930, the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky committed suicide in his Moscow apartment. His closest friends, including the writer Yuri Olesha, rushed to

vicemag: A Visit to Moscow’s Brain Institute, Where Stalin’s Brain Is Kept in