Matvei Konstantinovich Muranov was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and statesman.
Muranov in 1912
Bolshevik deputies of the Fourth State Duma released from a convict prison in convict clothes. From left to right: G. I. Petrovsky, M. K. Muranov, A. E. Badaev, F. N. Samoilov, N. R. Shagov. 1915
The Old Bolsheviks, also called the Old Bolshevik Guard or Old Party Guard, were members of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party prior to the October Revolution of 1917.
Matvei Muranov
…Soviet Supreme Court. In 1934 he moved to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. Muranov survived the Great Purge, which claimed the lives of many Old Bolsheviks, and was sent into retirement in 1939. He died in Moscow aged 86 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery. Encyclopedia of Marxism entry…
A door sign of the Society of Old Bolsheviks
The founders of the Bolshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP (1903)