In mid-February 1933, in Kraskovo near Moscow, several black "funnels" and a couple of trucks appeared, delivering a group of ten people and many boarded up boxes to one of the departmental dachas. Leaving the load in the courtyard behind a high fence, the cars drove off in the direction of Moscow, and people slowly began to disassemble the brought equipment, bringing it into a spacious two-story wooden house and a small shed located nearby. No one in the neighboring houses paid attention to the new tenants, it was not customary to take an interest in the neighbors. Yes, and it was hard to think that on that day a secret state alchemical laboratory appeared in Kraskovo, which was supposed to reveal the secret of the Philosopher's Stone, but not at all to obtain precious metals, but to create an elixir to prolong the life of the ruling elite of the USSR.
The main task of the ANDROGEN group was the analysis of ancient alchemical treatises in order to reveal the secret of the Philosopher's Stone. A group of researchers headed by Academician S. Saveliev, whose surname often appears in documents. Obviously, Savelyev's group was able to achieve significant results in the analysis of alchemical works, since already in December 1934, an order came from the Internal Affairs Committee of the USSR instructing Savelyev to report on the practical results of research.
Having received this order, Savelyev wrote in response a somewhat romantic letter, which Bulanov prudently did not send to the Central Committee (as evidenced by the postscript at the end of the document), which, most likely, saved Savelyev's life.
Obviously, after this letter, Savelyev had a very unpleasant conversation with Bulanov, who, most likely, popularly explained to him how such refusals and romantic reflections end in response to direct orders from the Central Committee. Moreover, Bulanova's arguments were apparently very weighty, since it took Savelyev not three days, but only a day to prepare a report for the Central Committee. On December 30, 1934, he reported to the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) and personally to I. Stalin.
Already in January 1935, Savelyev's group received all the necessary materials, scientific equipment, reagents, as well as the opportunity to travel abroad to work in Western archives and communicate with specialists in alchemy. The list of ordered equipment, which was provided to Savelyev by the NKVD, takes 4 typewritten sheets.
Leafing through the documents of the Savelyev case, one can find many deciphered alchemical treatises, symbols, formulas, which ultimately made it possible to approach the understanding of the process of making the Philosopher's Stone, presented in Savelyev's report under the heading "An approximate plan for the sequence of experiments in alchemy for obtaining a catalyst by the laboratory method, the so-called Philosopher's Stone ". And further, on 7 pages, a complex chemical process is described, which, as a result, led to the receipt of … "Living water - the elixir of life, healing from diseases and prolonging life" …
The full version of the article "Alchemists of the NKVD" will be published in the near future in a new book by N. Subbotin.
Author: Nikolay Subbotin