Аннотация:The Life of Lenin and the Apocrypha. Definition of the Apocrypha by I. Ya. Porfiryev is formulated as follows: "Apocryphal works or apocrypha are such works that are compiled in imitation of the holy biblical books, about biblical persons and events, and mostly on behalf of biblical persons; but sacred truths in these works are mixed with various fictions of fantasy" [1]. In modern times, the apocrypha has received an expanded interpretation as an essay about famous historical characters, described with deviations from the official tradition. In this sense, the apocryphal is undoubtedly eternal and will live in the people's consciousness. [2].The student’s essay. The volume of the essay [3] is about 4000 printed characters, 10 times less than Lenin’s Brief Biography [4]. Firstly the author of the essay states: "He was a great man." In school "Lenin did not like to fight, but he had to defend himself and protect his friends." – this is an undoubted positive response. Further, a description of pre-revolutionary Russia: "The counters in the stores were almost empty." Lenin had to work hard: "He ran with a huge bundle of books and distributed leaflets along the street, ran up to the cars and sold newspapers." Consequences of the revolution: "Because of the revolution, a hunger strike burst in the country." (Lenin) "could not give people more food only because the Germans were getting closer and closer, they burned crops, forcibly took food away from the elderly and women." The author jumps to the times of the World War II. "The people in the country rebelled and began to smash the city." – probably the events of October 15-16, 1941. There is also a hint of the Leningrad blockade: "There was no water anywhere, and if it was brought, people were given a piece of bread and half a mug of water. " Then "Lenin ordered the soldiers to calm the people down. The soldiers did not spare either the children or the women." Indeed, the panic of 1941 stopped in Moscow on the fourth day [5]. It is interesting that Lenin's cruelty does not diminish his image in the eyes of the young author. Further, "the revolutionaries ...caught Lenin and put him in the prison." – what kind of "revolutionaries" they are, one can only guess – whether the author had in mind the Trotskyists, Mensheviks, Socialist-Revolutionaries, everything merged into this concept. But then the author jumps to the period before the October Revolution: In the prison "Lenin read books, in the margins of a book he wrote a message with milk." This passage traces a hagiographic tradition, when a saint must endure torment and endure it steadily, but also it refers to the well-known story by Bonch-Bruevich [6]. After the liberation of Lenin "by Soviet troops"… "Lenin sent all his troops to the German army" and "The Soviet army finally defeated the enemy army." "After this victory, perestroika begins in the country." Then comes the attempt on Lenin's life, which was committed by "the old blind woman" – Fanny Kaplan. Lenin was buried in the mausoleum. The author, probably, visited the mausoleum and saw: "When light falls on him, it seems that he shines from the inside." A wish is expressed: “I hope that in the future he will be buried as a human being, otherwise he is lying there like a mannequin and everyone stares at him, he is also a human being, like all of us, let him be buried properly, and not as a mannequin." The author's desire to bring Him closer to us is obvious, "he is also a man like we are."