In this article, the author - colleague, employee and friend of the doctor of philosophy Professor M. S. Uvarov shares his memories of him as a person and analyzes the attitude of Mikhail Semenovich to Lenin as the largest political figure and thinker of our time, expressed in his report "Lenin and modern Western philosophy" at the international scientific and practical conference "Lenin in the modern world" held in 2012, the Chairman of the organizing Committee of which was the author of this article.