Funeral of I.V. Stalin (1953)

Stalin I.V. in a coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in March 1953. Stalin's head on a pillow.

Members of the mourning delegations climb the main staircase, carrying wreaths.

Members of one of the mourning delegations in the guard of honor at Stalin's coffin.

People enter the Column Hall of the House of Unions from Pushkinskaya Street to say goodbye to Stalin.

The mournful faces of girls.

A queue at the Column Hall of the House of Unions on Pushkinskaya Street.

The coffin with Stalin's body in the Column Hall of the House of Unions (above).

One of the mourning delegations passes by Stalin's coffin.

Views of the coffin with Stalin's body in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

The face and hands of Stalin lying in the coffin.

An orchestra plays.

An artist paints a posthumous portrait of Stalin lying in a coffin.

Artists paint a posthumous portrait of Stalin.

The military bring a funeral wreath into the hall.

Views and panoramas of queues to newspaper kiosks on the streets of Moscow.

People queue to newspaper kiosks.

People buy newspapers at a street kiosk.

People read newspapers with Stalin's obituary on the streets of Moscow.

Stalin's obituary in the newspaper "Socialist Agriculture".

People read a newspaper on a stand on one of the streets of Moscow.

People queue to newspaper kiosks, buy newspapers.

Newspapers for sale at one of the kiosks.

A woman reads a newspaper while walking.

Two men read a notice of Stalin's death in a newspaper on a stand.

Obituaries with Stalin's portraits, the text of the medical report, published in newspapers.

Members of the mourning delegations who arrived in Moscow to bid farewell to Stalin carry mourning wreaths along the platform, faces of the delegation members.

Faces of female Heroes of Socialist Labor and members of the funeral delegations standing in the guard of honor at the coffin with the body of I.V. Stalin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Pervukhin M.G., Suslov M.A., Ponomarenko P.K. standing in the guard of honor at Stalin's coffin.

Suslov's face.

Ponomarenko's face.

Ponomarenko and Suslov standing in the guard of honor.

Ponomarenko and Shkiryatov M.F. in the guard of honor at Stalin's coffin.

Faces of members of the funeral delegations standing in the guard of honor and sitting on chairs in the hall.

Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva is among those sitting in the hall.

Mikoyan A.A. and relatives of Mikoyan A.I. standing in the guard of honor at Stalin's coffin.

Faces of S.I. Alliluyeva and Stalin's relatives.

Stalin's son, Vasily Iosifovich, and his wife K.G. Vasilyeva in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Stalin's relatives in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Soldiers ascend the main staircase of the Column Hall.

Vasilevsky AM and Kuznetsov NG in the honor guard at Stalin's coffin.

Vasilevsky's face.

Zhukov GK and Timoshenko SK in the honor guard at Stalin's coffin.

Faces of Zhukov and Timoshenko.

Budyonny SM in the honor guard.

Views of the queue at the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

The movement of the queue on the streets of Moscow.

Panorama of part of the queue, people's faces, the movement of the queue.

Panorama of one of the streets filled with people.

Views of Moscow streets, people standing in line at the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

People's faces, trucks in the cordon.

People walk to the entrance to the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Panorama and views of the square filled with people on the day of Stalin's funeral on March 9, 1953 (above).

Views and panoramas of streets filled with people from edge to edge.

Stalin's mourning portrait on the facade of the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Funeral delegations enter the Column Hall to bid farewell to Stalin.

People stand at the entrance to the Column Hall.

Members of the mourning delegations walk through the Column Hall of the House of Unions during the farewell to Stalin, military personnel and employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs pass by.

The faces of women walking past Stalin's coffin.

The faces of people on Red Square during the ceremony of Stalin's burial in the mausoleum on March 9, 1953. View of part of the building of the Historical Museum and the Arsenal Corner Tower of the Moscow Kremlin (top).

The delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church, headed by Metropolitan Nikolai, goes to the Column Hall of the House of Unions to say farewell to Stalin and lay a wreath at his coffin.

Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church carry a funeral wreath to Stalin's coffin.

Metropolitan Nikolai and the clergy accompanying him walk to Stalin's coffin.

The face of Metropolitan Nikolai standing at Stalin's coffin.

One of the clergy in the honor guard at Stalin's coffin.

Members of the mourning delegations enter the Column Hall.

Molotov V.M., Voroshilov K.E., Beria L.P., Malenkov G.M. in the guard of honor at the coffin with Stalin's body in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Bulganin N.A., Khrushchev N.S., Kaganovich L.M., Mikoyan A.I. in the guard of honor at Stalin's coffin.

Stalin in the coffin.

The hands of Stalin, lying in the coffin.

The faces of people passing by the coffin, women wipe away tears.

Stalin in the coffin.

People pass through the Column Hall past the coffin with Stalin's body.

Funeral delegations at the entrance to the Column Hall.

Members of one of the mourning delegations carry wreaths to Stalin's coffin.

Stalin in the coffin.

Vasilevsky A.M. and Zhukov G.K. in the guard of honor at Stalin's coffin.

Konev I.S. in the honor guard at Stalin's coffin.

Stalin in the coffin.

Faces of the military passing by Stalin's coffin.

Budyonny S.M. and Timoshenko S.K. in the honor guard at Stalin's coffin.

Senior Air Force officers at Stalin's coffin.

Faces of the military passing by.