Why did Dzhugashvili take the pseudonym "Stalin"? Who was the living prototype of this pseudonym? Mysticism of Stalinist numbers. The book of the historian William Vasilyevich Pokhlebkin tells about this, as well as about other little-known facts of the Stalinist biography. The author is a professional historian. The book is devoted to clarifying the question that still represented the historical and party secret - how his pseudonym was "invented" by Stalin. The author gives a comprehensive answer to this and presents absolutely reliable evidence. For the first time on the tracker - the work of Pokhlebkin-historian, little known to a wide audience, dedicated to the origin of the pseudonym comrade. Stalin. According to eyewitnesses, it was this book that was discovered on the fateful day next to the body of a scientist in his apartment...