Uritskii’s Funeral (1918)


Description: The funeral of M. S. Uritskii, first leader of the Cheka, assassinated by SRs in 1918, in Petrograd. The funeral procession moves across the Field of Mars; among the marchers are Viacheslav Molotov (member of the Petrograd Military-Revolutionary Committee); Grigorii Zinoviev (chairman of the Petrograd Soviet), Elena Stasova (secretary of the Executive Committee of the party) and others.
Source: Russian State Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (2000).

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