The Golitsyns were in fact not descendants of Riurik, the mythic founder of the first Russian state, but of Gedymin, a fourteenth century grand prince of Lithuania

He aid they knew all about Sergei, that he was a strident monarchist and fascist, and he called him "Prince Riurik, a class enemy, a foe of Soviet power." (Here Sergei, unwisely, pointed out that the Golitsyns were in fact not descendants of Riurik, the mythic founder of the first Russian state, but of Gedymin, a fourteenth century grand prince of Lithuania. The stunned interrogator found this elucidation neither helpful or to the point.)

D. Smith,  Former People (2012), 288

This did not necessarily mean she could work with old Slavic manuscripts

If, to paraphrase Lenin, the government administration was to become so orderly and well organised that even a cook could run the state, this did not necessarily mean she could work with old Slavic manuscripts ... [and] catalog [sic] books in every European language

D. Smith,  Former People (2012), 259