OREANDA-NEWS Unknown persons burned Lenin's hut on the territory of the museum in the St. Petersburg city of Sestroretsk. This was reported 78.ru Natalia Kovalenko, Director of the historical and Cultural museum complex in Razliv.

The Russian woman noted that the incident occurred last night. "The hut was really set on fire. Now we are sorting it out," the head explained. Operatives began to search for criminals.

Lenin's Hut is a museum complex dedicated to the events of the summer of 1917, when revolutionaries Vladimir Lenin and Grigory Zinoviev were hiding from arrest on a warrant issued by the Provisional Government in connection with accusations of organizing the July riots in Petrograd. A granite monument by architect Alexander Gegello and a thatched building that burned down were also installed in Sestroretsk.

Earlier it was reported that in Tobolsk, Tyumen region, the Communists broke the fingers of a new monument to Lenin.