Fanny Kaplan
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Fanny Efimovna Kaplan was a Russian Socialist-Revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin. She was arrested and executed by the Cheka in 1918.
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Vladimir Pchelin's depiction of the assassination attempt
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Yakov Sverdlov
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Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A key Bolshevik organizer of the October Revolution of 1917, Sverdlov served as chairman of the Secretariat of the Russia
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…her in the back of the head, while truck engines ran to drown out the noise. Her corpse was bundled into a barrel and set alight. The order came from Yakov Sverdlov, who only six weeks earlier had ordered the murder of the Tsar and his family. Grigory Semyonov, a military commander in the SR who later turned state's…
Sverdlov in 1918
Sverdlov in 1904
Sverdlov's Okhrana mugshot, 1910
Sverdlov and Vladimir Lenin open the monument to Karl Marx in 1918