Lenin at the Third Congress of the Comintern

Stories of Iconic Lenin Photos #3

From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine in 1969, the third in a series of looks at the background of several famous, iconic photographs of Lenin.

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An album produced by the Art Publishers and entitled Lenin in Photographs is thought to be the first large collection of pictures taken of the leader of the October Revolution. In it Leonid Volkov-Lannit has brought together many obscure facts. These 130 photographs recall the events in the Smolny headquarters of the revolution in Petrograd (now Leningrad). The book also tells the story of the first Soviet photographers and cameramen who photographed Lenin in those epic days.

Soviet journalist Boris Galin, 1969:

There are three pictures by K. Bulla. Seated on the steps near the platform, a folder in his lap, Lenin is seen listening to statements and taking notes at the Third Congress of the Comintern. Another picture shows Lenin writing with concentration, his head bent over the paper. In the third he has placed his folder and papers on a step and is bending still lower over his notes, intent upon the words of the speaker.