"To destroy a people, you must destroy its heroes." That's what the ancients said. When Gorbachev's "catastrophe" began, vile anti-Soviet stuff poured into the pages of newspapers and magazines: they began to pour mud on people who became heroes under socialism. No one was spared: neither Alexei Stakhanov, nor Alexei Maresyev, nor Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, nor many other worthy and wonderful people.
Most of all, the vulgarities and cynics, warmed by the new government, went over Pavel Morozov. For a quarter of a century, the media have been mocking a boy brutally murdered by adult men. The fact that the killers simultaneously killed his own brother, eight-year-old Fedya, the media try not to report. They apply a precise psychological approach: a double murder is too much! This may cause an undesirable reaction from the Russian, he may feel sorry for the little Fedya, who in this case had nothing to do with it at all. And from here, along the logical chain, it is not far to doubt the legitimacy of revenge on the elder Morozov.
The current Russian ideologists like to say that they are real democrats, they respect different opinions. Even those that do not match their opinion. But, since they are such truth-seekers, why don't they study historical documents and materials of the investigation in order to form a true picture of what happened? It turns out that the truth does not interest them at all. That is why the publication about P. Morozov in Komsomolskaya Pravda is completely false. Correspondents present a tragic story that happened in the village of Gerasimovka, Sverdlovsk Region, at first with malice (you see, boy, what a bastard, Judas!), And end with a smirk (they say they killed you - that's what you need!). The metropolitan beau monde is giggling at the Comedy Club, where a show is being played on the theme of the murder of a pioneer activist. And there are many examples of this.
What actually happened more than eighty years ago in the village of Gerasimovka? About this in his book “From and to ...” writes the Hero of Socialist Labor, winner of 3 Stalin Prizes and one Lenin Prize, the State Prize of the USSR and the State Prize of the RSFSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR and the Russian Academy of Education, chairman Board of the Union of Writers of Russia, poet Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov: “I take the opportunity to return to Pavlik Morozov his right to be a murdered child, a sufferer, and not a fiend. The facts that were not rigged are as follows: yes, thirteen-year-old Pavlik testified against his father at the trial. More precisely, he confirmed what the mother had said as a witness. And he couldn't have done otherwise. After all, the mother had already given truthful testimony. This means that if Pavlik wanted to shield his native scoundrel, then, firstly, he would most likely be convicted of a lie. And most importantly, he would have to choose between a hated father and a beloved mother, whom he could jeopardize with false testimony. Pavel's father drank, beat the children and mother, and, in the end, left in front of the eyes of the whole village to another woman. But even after that, he constantly came to the first family to beat his ex-wife and four children. The villagers also hated the chairman of the village council Trofim Morozov: he appropriated things stolen from them. Using his official position, he wrote out certificates to special settlers, for which, according to them, “he tore three skins from us.”
They gave Morozov 10 years, but for good work at the Belomorkanal they cut off his sentence, and he returned home three years later with a medal. The wife, after the murder of the children, hiding from the revenge of her ex-husband, left the village forever, lived in Tyumen.
The young truth-seeker Pavlik and his younger brother Fedya were killed by his own grandfather Sergei (paternal) and cousin Danila.
From Danila's explanation: “Grandfather Sergei and I went to the forest. We knew which way Pavel went home, and we went to meet him. The guys did not suspect anything, they came close. And then the grandfather suddenly hit Pavel with a knife. Pavel cried out: "Run, Fedya, they are killing." I rushed after Fedor, grabbed him. Grandfather ran up and struck him several blows. My grandfather killed both with my help. We did this at the instigation of Kulukanov (a local rich man).”
The spilled blood of children, the brutalization of two healthy men passes, as it were, by the consciousness of the current "truth-seekers". There is no God’s judgment for them…”
The goal of denigrating the Soviet past was determined by Anatoly Chubais, one of the ideologists of current gangster capitalism, who once said: “The faster the Soviet people who lived under socialism die out, the faster and better we will carry out our reforms.” His reforms are well known: the impoverishment of the majority of the population of Russia, the destruction of heavy and light industry, agriculture and pharmaceuticals. And on the ruins of a once powerful superpower, like a cancerous tumor, an increasing number of millionaires and billionaires are rapidly growing, who are not touched by either the court or the “democratic” press. The task of the media that serves the rich is to compromise the Soviet Union in the eyes of the younger generation, so that God forbid they want a repetition of socialism! So corrupt correspondents are trying to spit on our past, to mock Pavlik Morozov.
Alexander Boboshko
Pavel Timofeevich Morozov was born in 1918 in the village of Gerasimovka, Sverdlovsk Region. He organized the first in his native village and actively campaigned for the creation of a collective farm. The kulaks, which included Timofey Morozov, actively opposed the Soviet regime and plotted to disrupt the grain procurements. Pavlik accidentally found out about the impending sabotage. The young pioneer stopped at nothing and exposed the kulaks. The villagers, who learned that the son had handed over his own father to the authorities, brutally dealt with Pavlik and his younger brother. They were brutally killed in the forest.
Many books have been written about the feat of Pavlik Morozov, songs and poems were composed about him. The first song about Pavlik Morozov was written by the then unknown young writer Sergei Mikhalkov. This work made him overnight a very popular and sought-after author. In 1948, a street in Moscow was named after Pavlik Morozov and a monument was erected.
Pavlik Morozov was not the first
There are at least eight known cases of children being killed for denunciations. These events took place before the murder of Pavlik Morozov.
In the village of Sorochintsy, Pavel Teslya also denounced his father, for which he paid with his life five years earlier than Morozov.
Another seven similar cases occurred in various villages. Two years before the death of Pavlik Morozov, informer Grisha Hakobyan was stabbed to death in Azerbaijan.
Even before the death of Pavlik, the Pionerskaya Pravda newspaper told of cases when fellow villagers brutally killed young informers. The texts of children's denunciations were published here, with all the details.
Followers of Pavlik Morozov
The brutal reprisals against young scammers continued. In 1932, three children were killed for denunciations, in 1934 - six, and in 1935 - nine.
The story of Proni Kolybin, who denounced his mother, accusing her of stealing socialist property, is noteworthy. A beggar woman collected fallen spikelets on a collective farm field in order to somehow feed her family, including Pronya himself. The woman was imprisoned, and the boy was sent to rest in Artek.
Mitya Gordienko also noticed a couple on the collective farm field, who were collecting fallen spikelets. As a result, on the denunciation of the young pioneer, the man was shot, and the woman was sentenced to ten years in prison. Mitya Gordienko received a premium watch, "Lenin's grandchildren", new boots and a pioneer suit as a gift.
The Chukchi boy, whose name was Yatyrgin, learned that the reindeer herders were going to take their herds to Alaska. He informed the Bolsheviks about this, for which the enraged reindeer herders hit Yatyrgin on the head with an ax and threw him into a pit. Thinking the boy is already dead. However, he managed to survive and get to "his". When Yatyrgin was solemnly accepted as a pioneer, it was decided to give him a new name - Pavlik Morozov, with whom he lived to old age.
Many people mention it very often, but often they know very little. And if they know, it is not the fact that the truth. He twice became a victim of political propaganda: in the era of the USSR, he was presented as a hero who gave his life in the class struggle, and during perestroika, as an informer who betrayed his own father.
Modern historians question both myths about Pavlik Morozov, who became one of the most controversial figures in Soviet history.
The main attraction of the village of Gerasimovka, Sverdlovsk region. - Museum and grave of Pavlik Morozov. Up to 3 thousand people come here a year. And almost everyone is ready to tell how it all happened, so this image is imprinted in our consciousness ... 
The story of the murder of Pavlik Morozov over 80 years has acquired a lot of myths, but until recently there were two main versions. According to one of them, Pavlik wrote a denunciation of his father, a kulak, and then on other kulaks who hid grain from the state. Grandfather and uncle did not forgive him for this, they waylaid him with his brother Fedya in the forest and slaughtered him. A demonstration trial took place over the grandfather, uncle and relatives of the children. Some were accused of murder, others of covering up a crime. Sentences - the death penalty or long terms of imprisonment. 
According to another version, Pavlik was killed by the OGPU: allegedly, the system needed a hero to justify the repressions. A child killed with fists was perfect for this role. 
Meanwhile, the director of the Pavlik Morozova Museum, Nina Kupratsevich, told us her version of this story. After many years of research, work with archival documents, meetings with Pavlik's relatives, Nina Ivanovna is absolutely sure: the boy did not betray any of his relatives and it was by no means relatives and not employees of the OGPU who killed him, but completely different people.
In all this tragic story, the figure of the father, Trofim Sergeevich Morozov, is very important. According to Kupratsevich, in fact, he was a literate, respected person in the village, otherwise he simply would not have been elected to the chairmanship of the village council. What Trofim was later accused of would today be called corruption. He illegally issued certificates of registration to dispossessed peasants and their families exiled to Gerasimovka. Without them, they had no right to leave the village. People worked in logging, starving, dying, and many wanted to leave. Of course, at that time it was considered a crime, but, in fact, Trofim Morozov saved people. The criminal case was initiated precisely because of fake certificates: two peasants were detained with them at the station in Tavda ...
Resentment for the mother. 
Kupratsevich believes that an illiterate thirteen-year-old boy could not “lay down” his father. At the time of the trial, Trofim had already left the family, lived with a cohabitant for a long time, and his son was simply not aware of his affairs. Secondly, the small, thin Pavlik stuttered and simply could not give out that “anti-Kulak” monologue that Soviet propagandists attributed to him. And this monologue sounded like this (according to the writer Pavel Solomein): “Uncle judges, my father created a clear counter-revolution, I, as a pioneer, am obliged to say this, my father is not a defender of the interests of October, but is trying in every possible way to help the kulak escape, stood behind him with a mountain, and not as a son, but as a pioneer, I ask that my father be held accountable, because in the future I will not give the habit to others to hide their fist and clearly violate the party line ... " 
[The house where Pavlik Morozov lived, 1950]
Yes, he had a reason to be offended by his father - for his mother. After all, Trofim went to a strange woman. Pashka stayed behind the owner in a family with four children, he didn’t even have time to study.
- On that day, Pavlik and Fedya went to the swamp for cranberries, - Nina Kupratsevich tells her version of those events. - The Morozovs' house was extreme, and, apparently, the grandfather, later accused of murder, saw them. But then the whole village went to those places for cranberries! Pavlik's grandfather, who was over 80, could not be so bad as to kill his grandson in front of possible witnesses. Did he not understand that the children would scream? And they were screaming! You read the protocol of examination of corpses: the brothers were cut with knives, their hands were injured. Apparently, they grabbed the blades, called for help. It doesn't look like a premeditated murder at all. Everything suggests that the guys were killed in a state of extreme fear. I think that these were dispossessed peasants-special settlers who lived in a dugout and hid in the forest from the authorities. Fearing that the boys would betray them, they grabbed their knives...
"Participation not proven" 
Kupratsevich also does not believe in the version about the OGPU: “Do you really think that the authorities would not have found a suitable village closer to the center? How long did you travel to us? Three hours from Yekaterinburg? And at that time there was no direct road at all, it was necessary to get across the river by ferry. And when “myth-making” began, people began to be driven to the collective farm, it turned out very conveniently: the kulaks took the lives of two little brothers. And in fact, from scratch, the image of a pioneer hero was created. Maxim Gorky himself at the All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers said: “Relatives by blood, strangers by class killed Pavlik ...”
In fact, Pavlik was not a pioneer - a pioneer organization appeared in their village only a month after his murder. The tie was later simply added to his portrait. 
[Pioneers visit the site of the death of Pavlik Morozov, 1968]
Meanwhile, in the late 90s, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation came to the conclusion that the murder of Pavlik Morozov was purely criminal in nature, and the criminals were not subject to rehabilitation for political reasons. However, retired Colonel of Justice Alexander Liskin, who took part in an additional investigation of the case in 1967 and worked with the KGB archives, concluded in 2001 that the participation of the people accused in the death of Pavlik was not proven. Moreover, he claims that Pavlik appeared in court in his father's case as a witness. And there are no denunciations in this case.
By the way… 
[Monument to Pavlik Morozov in the Sverdlovsk region, 1968. Pavlik's mother Tatyana Morozova with her grandson Pavel, 1979]
The fate of Pavlik's relatives developed in different ways. His godfather Arseny Kulukanov and cousin Danila were shot. Grandfather Sergey and grandmother Xenia died in prison. Trofim Morozov received ten years in the camps, worked on the construction of the White Sea Canal, where he died. According to other information, he remained alive, was released and spent his last days somewhere in the Tyumen region. Pavlik's brother Alexei Morozov fought at the front, but in 1943 he recklessly praised the brand of some German aircraft and spent 10 years near Nizhny Tagil. “I met with him. A very positive, wonderful person, ”Kupratsevich recalls. Mom Tatyana Semyonovna Morozova moved to the Crimea, to Alupka, where Nadezhda Krupskaya secured an apartment for her. She was given a small pension. She lived modestly, instead of a signature, she put a cross all her life.
P.S.
No matter how the story of Pavlik Morozov is interpreted, his fate does not become less tragic. His death served the Soviet government as a symbol of the struggle against those who do not share its ideals, and in the perestroika era it was used to discredit this government.
Who is Pavlik Morozov? In the post-war years, a lot of controversy erupted around his legendary personality. Some saw a hero in his face, others claimed that he was an informer and did not accomplish any feat. The information that is established reliably is not enough to restore all the details of the event. Therefore, many of the nuances were added by the journalists themselves. Official confirmation is only the fact of his death from a knife, date of birth and death. All other events are subject to discussion.
Official version
The memoirs of fellow countrymen testify that he studied well and was a leader among his peers. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia contains information that Pavel Morozov organized the first pioneer detachment in his village. The boy grew up in a large family. At an early age, he lost his father, who left for another woman, leaving the children in the care of his mother. Despite the fact that many worries after the departure of his father fell on the shoulders of Paul, he showed a great desire to study. This was later told by his teacher L.P. Isakova.
At his young age, he firmly believed in communist ideas. In 1930, according to the official version, he denounced his father, who, being the chairman of the village council, forged certificates to the kulaks that they were allegedly dispossessed.
As a result, Father Pavel was sentenced to 10 years. For his heroic deed, the boy paid with his life: he and his younger brother were slaughtered in the forest when the boys were picking berries. All members of the Morozov family were later accused of the massacre. His own paternal grandfather Sergey and 19-year-old cousin Danila, as well as grandmother Xenia (as an accomplice) and Pavel's godfather - Arseniy Kulukanov, who was his uncle (as a village kulak - as the initiator and organizer of the murder) were found guilty of the murder of Yuyli . After the trial, Arseny Kulukanov and Danila Morozov were shot, octogenarian Sergei and Ksenia Morozov died in prison. Another uncle of Pavlik, Arseniy Silin, was also accused of complicity in the murder, but during the trial he was acquitted.
Interestingly, Pavlik's father, convicted of forgery, returned from the camps three years later. He participated in the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal and, after working for three years, returned home with an order for hard work, and then settled in Tyumen.
The act of Pavel Morozov was regarded by the Soviet authorities as a feat for the benefit of the people. He believed in a bright future and made a significant contribution to the building of communism, for which he paid with his life. They made a real hero out of Pavlik, while hiding some dubious facts from his life. Over time, this whole story turned into a legend, which became an example for many compatriots.
Heroism or betrayal?
In the post-war years, historians, raising archives, ran into serious contradictions. A version appeared that Pavlik did not inform on his father, but simply gave evidence. And the father was detained by law enforcement agencies, as they say, "hot". Given that his father was practically a stranger to him, who left his family and did not care about her at all, the act becomes logically understandable. Perhaps, with his testimony, Pavel was simply trying to take revenge.
Today, Pavlik's act is seen by some as a betrayal. In any case, this story has not yet been fully disclosed, so many still adhere to the official version.
09/10/2003 The mystery of the life and death of Pavlik Morozov
Tyumen. September 3 marks the 71st anniversary of the death of Pavlik Morozov. He, along with his younger brother Fedya, was killed for denouncing his father to the Chekists. The village of Gerasimovka, where Pavlik was born and buried, is located 40 kilometers from the regional center of Tavda, Sverdlovsk Region.
In Soviet times, when the pioneer hero Pavlik Morozov was a model for the younger generation, an asphalt road was laid in the village and the House-Museum was built. Tourists from all over the country were taken by bus - 10-15 excursions a day. Now Gerasimovka is known only to old-timers and historians. The memorial complex is closed and is in a deplorable state.
Train of mystery
Streets in dozens of Russian cities still bear the name of Pavlik Morozov, although the main monument to the hero with a banner in his hand has long been removed from its pedestal in a park on Moscow's Krasnaya Presnya. After his death, he was forever inscribed in the history of the pioneers at number 001, and now his name has become a symbol of betrayal.
"There is still no clarity in this case. Even in the materials that are available, inconsistencies can be found, but no re-analysis has been carried out," says Anna Pastukhova, chairman of the Yekaterinburg branch of the Memorial human rights society. She believes that it is too early to close the case of Pavlik Morozov, "who has become a bargaining chip in adult games."
After several decades, it is already difficult to understand where is the myth about a 14-year-old boy who allegedly sacrificed his life in the fight against the "kulaks" who hid bread from the village poor, and where is the real life of a semi-literate teenager from a large village family.
Informer 001
The first attempt to make an independent investigation into the life of Pavlik was made back in the mid-80s by the Moscow prose writer Yuri Druzhnikov, who later wrote the book Informer 001, or the Ascension of Pavlik Morozov, translated into several foreign languages. During the investigation, Druzhnikov was able to talk with some of the boy's surviving relatives, including his mother Tatyana Morozova, whom Soviet propaganda turned into the heroic mother of a pioneer hero.
The death of Pavlik was blamed on his closest relatives - grandfather Sergei Morozov, his wife Ksenia, cousin Danila and godfather - Armenia Kulukanov. Druzhnikov was the first to question the verdict. The trial itself was conducted in violation of the law, and "the main evidence of the guilt of the defendants were quotations from the reports of Stalin and Molotov that the class struggle intensified in certain areas, and the accused were an illustration of the correctness of their statements."
Druzhnikov, now a lecturer at the University of California, believes that Pavlik's denunciation of his father was made by him at the "instigation of his mother, whom his father left behind, having gone to another."
“He was never a pioneer either, he was made a pioneer after his death,” says Druzhnikov. “And most importantly, I revealed secret documents that Pavlik and his brother were killed not by fists, but by two NKVD officers: one is a voluntary and the second is a professional. They killed and blamed relatives who did not want to join the collective farm. By the way, the convicts were not kulaks either. They were forced to dig a hole for themselves, stripped naked and shot as an example. This is how Stalin's directive on total collectivization was carried out locally. And the pioneer hero was needed two years later, when the Writers' Union was created and the boy was named the first positive hero of socialist realism.
Poor Pavlik Morozov
On September 3, 1982, the country widely celebrated the 50th anniversary of the death of pioneer hero Pavlik Morozov, brutally murdered by bandits-kulaks. And a few years later, the memory of the hero began to be debunked, who allegedly turned out to be a juvenile informer against his own father. Meanwhile, the famous Shlisselburg revolutionary N. Morozov told the truth about the tragedy that had unfolded in the Urals to the writer Alexei Tolstoy back in 1939... This mysterious story is told in an article by Fyodor Morozov, a local historian from Tsarskoe Selo, our longtime author.
About twenty years ago, I remember, Lenin's rooms in secondary, music and sports schools throughout the country were covered with portraits of Pavlik Morozov. And the stories about the young pioneer, who allegedly exposed the hostile activities of his father, a fist, who hid grain from starving workers, and for this he was brutally murdered by his own grandfather and brother, the fists, diluted the radio stations "Mayak" and "Youth" almost every Saturday.
During the reign of Andropov, the feat of Pavlik received a new interpretation. His father turned from a fist into a village headman, who enjoyed a reputation among his fellow villagers as a respected, decent person, but succumbed to intimidation by bandits hiding in the forests, to whom he issued false certificates. And in 1984, it suddenly turned out that Pavlik Morozov himself was not at all the one for whom he had been given out for fifty years ...
The family of Trofim Morozov - the head of the village of Gerasimovka, Tavdinsky district, Sverdlovsk region - was, it turns out, very pious and did not miss a single Sunday service and church holiday. Moreover, both sons of the headman, Pavel and Fedor, often helped the local priest, for which he taught them to read and write. On the day of death on September 3, 1932, when both brothers were returning home from the local priest, they were slaughtered not far from their native village.
In 1989, the Ogonyok magazine published a new version, according to which it turned out that Pavlik Morozov, in principle, could not be a pioneer, since the nearest pioneer organization at that time was 120 kilometers from Gerasimovka. The reason for his murder was as if purely domestic. Pavlik's mother allegedly died, and his relationship with his stepmother did not work out. A strange and terrible role in the events was played by the jealousy of Morozov's neighbor, who, on behalf of Pavlik, wrote a denunciation to the Tavdinsky department of the GPU, casting a shadow of suspicion on the unsuspecting boy. During interrogations, Pavlik allegedly answered insulting questions with silence, which was taken as his confession in writing the denunciation. Mad with shame and grief, grandmother Aksinya decided in her own way to deal with Pavlik and his brother. Watching them on a forest road late in the evening of September 3, 1932, she strangled them ...
In the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, this story looks different. Pavlik Morozov handed over his father, who allegedly sold documents to the enemies of the people, to the secretary of the Tavdinsky district party committee back in 1930, and at the same time appeared in court as an accuser of his own ancestor. At the same time, Pavlik Morozov was allegedly elected chairman of the council of the pioneer detachment of Gerasimovka. And in 1932, Pavlik, being a 14-year-old teenager, allegedly led local food detachments to seize surplus grain from the kulaks of the entire Tavdinsky district, for which the fists slaughtered him along with his brother on a forest road (TSB 1954, vol. 28, p. 310 ).
Meanwhile, back in 1939, the famous honorary academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, revolutionary Schlisselburger Nikolai Morozov, outraged by the proximity of his surname to the surname of Pavlik in the first Soviet encyclopedia of 1936, undertook an investigation of this case, so to speak, in hot pursuit. And I found out that everything was completely different from what was said and written in all the then official sources. According to Morozov's investigation, it turned out that Pavlik was not a pioneer, just as he was not an informer. At the trial against the head of the family, he acted as a witness and defended his father with all his might, which there were still many witnesses at that time: the court session in Tavda was held with open doors.
The honorary academician failed to talk with the secretary of the Tavdinsky district committee, to whom Pavlik allegedly whispered in his ear about the atrocities of his father: by that time the official had already been shot as an enemy of the people. But in the case of the murder of Pavel and Fyodor Morozov, Nikolai Alexandrovich discovered the testimony of members of the Morozov family - mother, sister and uncle. In her explanatory note, Tatyana Semyonovna, Pavel's mother, obviously under dictation, called her son a snitch, and blamed his grandfather, grandmother and uncle Danila for his death. In the same note, she first called Pavlik a pioneer. “My son Pavel, no matter what he saw or heard about this kulak gang, always reported them to the village council. Because of this, the kulaks hated him and in every possible way wanted to wipe out this young pioneer from the face of the earth.” (A curious detail: Pavlik's father was the chairman of the Gerasimovsky village council, so it turns out that he passed denunciations on his father and relatives to his father himself!)
As a result of meetings and conversations with the surviving Morozov relatives, the academician found out that a conflict had long been ripening in the family. By writing out left-wing documents, Trofim Morozov brought terrible misfortune to the family. Endless showdowns at night eventually led to a divorce and division of property. Taking advantage of the opportunity, numerous "well-wishers" intervened in the case, a train of denunciations about Trofim Sergeyevich, grandmother Aksinya and grandfather Sergey reached the Tavdinsky district committee and the district police department. All the slanders were allegedly written from the words of Pavlik by the local policeman Ivan Poputchik and the hut Pyotr Yeltsin. On their basis, the trial of Trofim Morozov was hastily concocted.
By that time, Pavlik himself knew how to write, so the denunciations allegedly recorded from his words that went to the area were 100% fakes! For some reason, Pavel was not asked questions about his "denunciations" at the trial. Nevertheless, although the guilt of Trofim Sergeevich was not proven, he got a sentence, and the Morozov family was almost repressed as a kulak family. This happened, however, two years later, and the district police officer demanded that Pavel himself testify against his grandfather and grandmother, respected in the district. Morozov, as their eldest grandson, resolutely refused, saying that he would beg a priest he knew for such thoughts and suggestions to anathematize the district police officer. Pavel's conversation with the district police officer took place on September 1, 1932, and Pavel managed to convey its content to his confessor. And on September 3, he, together with his brother, returning from the church, did not reach the house ... Two days later, the bodies of the tormented brothers were found literally a stone's throw from the village. On the same day, the district police officer had terrible suspicions, and he conducted searches in the house of grandfather Pavlik and his cousin Danila, where he found bloody pants, a shirt and a knife. What kind of fool keeps such evidence in the house? The precinct was not going to answer such a stupid question from fellow villagers, he did not care about trifles.
On September 8, the district police officer, with the support of the opera from Tavda, knocked out testimony from Danila Morozov that the brothers were stabbed to death by the neighbor of the Morozovs, Efrem Shatrakov, but he, Danila, only kept both "pioneers". The district police officer I. Poputchik added to the case of the murder of the brothers the last one, allegedly written from the words of Pavlik by the district police officer, "denunciation" against Shatrakov's neighbor, who allegedly concealed large surpluses of grain. On the same day, a strange explanatory note from Pavlik's mother appeared, in which he already appears as a pioneer and scammer, and the grandfather, grandmother and cousin Danila are called the main culprits of the tragedy.
On September 12, Danila changed his testimony and declared guilty of the death of the brothers of their own 80-year-old infirm grandfather Sergei Sergeyevich, who was not even able to keep up with his grandchildren, not to mention raising a knife over their heads! In the final version of the investigation, it is already indicated that the bloody "evidence" was found in the house of his grandfather, S.S. Morozov ...
The court sentenced the grandfather and cousin Pavlik Morozov, and at the same time the grandmother "for non-information" to be shot, while Shatrakov's neighbor was released from the courtroom as "repentant" ...
According to Tatyana Semyonovna, Pavlik's mother, the testimony against her grandfather was beaten out of her by employees of the Tavdinsky department of the OGPU by threats of reprisals against the whole family.
Honorary academician N.A. Morozov brought this maternal recognition with him in 1939 from Gerasimovka; he showed it to his acquaintances, in particular, to the deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, writer Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy. However, he was afraid to launch the document.
Just before his death in 1946, Morozov handed over the confessions of Pavlik's mother to Tsarskoye Selo local historians, from whose funds they were stolen in April 1951. Vladimir Nikolayevich Smirnov, at that time the deputy chairman of the local section of local lore, told me about this.
Before the war, no one tried to shoot at least a small documentary about the most legendary pioneer of the era ... Is it because, apart from the Tavda Chekists and their rough cooking, there was nothing to shoot?
The name of Pavlik Morozov forever remained crap, the truth-bearers of all generations ruffled him at every corner and, no matter how scary, they rattle him to this day. Who and when will anathematize them for such fanaticism and mockery of the memory of innocent people?
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