Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin
On 5 March 1953, at 21:50 EET, Joseph Stalin, the second leader of the Soviet Union, died at the Kuntsevo Dacha aged 74 after suffering a stroke. After four days of national mourning, Stalin was given a state funeral and then buried in Lenin's Mausoleum on 9 March. Nikita Khrushchev, Georgy Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov and Lavrentiy Beria were in charge of organizing the funeral.
Anastasia Bitsenko
Bitsenko returned to Russia and continued her party engagement, holding various political and committee positions. With the death Vladmir Lenin wide-spread purges were enacted by the new Soviet supreme leader Joseph Stalin, of which she became a target too. Accused of being a member of a terrorist organization she was put on trial and sentenced to death. On 16 June 1938 she was shot and buried in Kommunarka.