[Stalin, Lenin and Kalinin at the VIII Party Congress, Moscow, 1919]

Unknown

1919

M. Kalinin was President of the USSR from 1922 until his death in 1946. This photograph has been retouched to eliminate the other seventeen delegates in the original photograph. While there are other versions of the original photograph, this one with the three Old Bosheviks is the most famous.

Party Members; Civil War

Private Collection of Artem Zadikian

n/a

Photograph

PH000149