The Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution is a memorial on the Field of Mars in Saint Petersburg. It marks the burial places of some of those who died during the February and October Revolutions
Aerial view of the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution
The monument in its setting at the centre of the Field of Mars
5 April [O.S. 23 March] 1917. The funerals of those killed during the February Revolution.
Coffins in the communal grave
Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky, also known by his pen-name Boretsky, was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia. After the October Revolution, he was the head of the Petrograd Cheka from January 1918
Portrait by Moisei Nappelbaum [ru], 1918
Moisei Uritsky student at Bila Tserkva gymnasium circa 1883
Moisei Uritsky's internal exile in Arkhangelsk Governorate, circa 1906
Uritsky on a 1933 Soviet stamp