(Faina Ranevskaya sarcastically remarked: "Shatrov - this is the Krupskaya of our days".
"The Bolsheviks" is based on the true story of Fanny Kaplan's attempt to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.
[4] The play "The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk" was initially banned by the regime in the USSR due to its depiction of Lenin and was approved for publication only in 1987, 25 years after it was written.
[6] Mikhail Shatrov died in Moscow at the 79th year of his life from a heart attack in his apartment in the House on the Embankment.
The 1968 Soviet film The Sixth of July is based on Shatrov's play with the same name.