Focus on Lenin Monument April 13th 1917 and explain the The 1917 photograph.
On their week-long train journey from Zürich to Petrograd, following the February Revolution and the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, Vladimir Lenin and his co-travellers made a day-long stopover in Stockholm on 13 April 1917. They were met at the Stockholm Central Station by a group of prominent Swedish left-wing politicians. One of them, Fredrik Ström, gave word about the arrival to photographer Axel Malmström, who turned up at the station to take the only known photographs of Lenin during this famous journey, "the most momentous train journey in history" according to Catherine Merridale, author of the book Lenin on the Train.
One of the photographs, taken at Vasagatan 12, shows Lenin talking to Ture Nerman. Following behind them are, among others, Carl Lindhagen, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Karl Radek, Inessa Armand and Grigory Zinoviev. In a widely reproduced print of the Vasagatan 12 photo, Lenin's position has been indicated by a cross-mark, most likely put there by the photographer himself.
Fredrik Ström Vladimir Lenin Axel Malmström Catherine Merridale February Revolution Ture Nerman Karl Radek Zürich Carl Lindhagen Petrograd Nadezhda Krupskaya Grigory Zinoviev Stockholm Central Station Vasagatan Inessa Armand Nicholas II