Each year he would pay 29 first prizes of 100000 rubles, 25 second prizes of 50000 rubles and 40 third prizes of 25000 rubles, which means that Stalin spent a grand total of 5150000 rubles every year as money prizes for his award.
Ok wait so he was actually kind of loaded. That must be a lot of fucking money from books, damn.
He wrote a lot of extremely popular works. I think the important thing here is that he didn't use any of it for property and he spent literally all of it on these awards.
Ok wait so he was actually kind of loaded. That must be a lot of fucking money from books, damn.
He wrote a lot of extremely popular works. I think the important thing here is that he didn't use any of it for property and he spent literally all of it on these awards.