Volkogonov writes: “Everyone sighed with relief and waited for the bell to ring. They were finally reassured when an outside sentry reported that a light from his dining room had come on about 6:30 p.m. All through the afternoon the domestic staff and his personal guards worried and waited for Stalin to come out. To make matters even more difficult, no one was authorized to enter his private chambers unless they were summoned. Stalin did not leave his chamber that morning and by noon his staff became worried. Georgy Malenkov and Lavrenti Beria, two of Stalin's henchmen whom he allowed to commingle socially, left together in the same Volga. When Stalin finally got up and left, his shaken guests seized their opportunity and left the dacha. He was still complaining that the leadership, which included many of his guests that night, were basking on past glories - but “they were mistaken.” The implied threat to his inner circle was ominous. They simply had to wait until Stalin dismissed them. Nevertheless, we do know that the guests had become a captive audience that evening and could not leave the Blizhnyaya, his nearer dacha in Kuntsevo, without Stalin's permission. And at the time Volkogonov had written his book those guardsmen could not be found or had refused to talk. He had only been told what had happened by the guardsmen.
But Rybin, though, had not been there during Stalin's final days. Rybin had been in the NKVD and later had become one of Stalin's bodyguards. Volkogonov based his account on the testimony of A. And from there, they went on to discuss other matters until about 4:00 a.m.
With the help of Timashuk and other patriots, we’ll complete the investigation and come to you for permission to arrange a public trial.” Then, “Arrange it,” Stalin ordered. Stalin responded, “Right, what do you propose to do now? Have the doctors confessed? Tell Ignatiev that if he doesn’t get full confessions out of them, we’ll reduce his height by a head.” Beria reassured Stalin, “They’ll confess.
He has told one of the doctors in his clinic that Comrade Stalin has already had several dangerous hypertonic episodes.” Minister of State Security Lavrenti Beria replied, “Apart from his other unfavorable qualities, the professor has a long tongue. According to Dmitri Volkogonov in Stalin - Triumph and Tragedy (1991), the night before Stalin became ill, he inquired from Beria about the status of the case against the doctors and specifically about the interrogation of Professor Vinogradov.
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