Funeral of M.I. Kalinin (1946)

People in the Column Hall of the House of Unions pass by the coffin of M.I. Kalinin in June 1946. Kalinin in the coffin.

Faces of Stalin I.V., Malenkov G.M., Beria L.P., Molotov V.M. standing in the guard of honor at Kalinin's coffin.

Molotov V.M., Kaganovich L.M., Zhdanov A.A. in the guard of honor at Kalinin's coffin.

Mikoyan A.I., Andreev A.A. in the guard of honor at Kalinin's coffin.

The face of Voznesensky N.A. The face of an elderly woman.

Kalinin in the coffin.

Faces of people passing by the coffin with Kalinin's body, a woman in a black headscarf wipes her eyes with a handkerchief.

Faces of elderly people, participants in the October Revolution, standing in the guard of honor at Kalinin's coffin.

Representatives of Moscow industrial enterprises pass by Kalinin's coffin.

Marshal of Yugoslavia Tito I.B. and Yugoslav military personnel in the guard of honor at Kalinin's coffin.

Tito's face.

Kalinin in the coffin.

View of part of the Column Hall of the House of Unions during the farewell to Kalinin's body (top).

Stalin, Malenkov, Beria form the last guard of honor.

Stalin in the guard of honor next to the sentry.

Molotov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan in the guard of honor.

Shvernik's face N.M. Zhdanov and Andreyev in the guard of honor.

Voznesensky's face.

Bulganin N.A. in the guard of honor at Kalinin's coffin.

Tito and his entourage on the guest stand on Red Square during Kalinin's funeral ceremony on June 6, 1946. The heads of state ascend the mausoleum tribune, among them Beria, Malenkov, Bulganin, Stalin, Mikoyan, Kaganovich, Andreyev, Voznesensky.

Views of Red Square during the parade of the Moscow garrison troops to pay their last respects to Kalinin (top), Zhdanov, Kosygin, Bulganin, Stalin, Tito, Molotov on the mausoleum tribune.

Portrait of Kalinin in mourning attire during the farewell rally on Red Square.

Troops march along Red Square (top).

Stalin on the mausoleum tribune.

Molotov, Tito, Stalin on the mausoleum tribune.

Troops march in front of the mausoleum, Mikoyan, Voznesensky and Zhdanov on the mausoleum tribune.

Faces of the participants in the mourning rally on Red Square.

Mikoyan, Voznesensky, Zhdanov, Andreyev on the mausoleum tribune.

Beria delivers a funeral speech from the rostrum of the mausoleum, with Malenkov and Shvernik standing nearby.

View of part of Red Square during the funeral rally (from above).

Chairman of the Moscow City Council Executive Committee Popov G.M. delivers a speech from the rostrum of the mausoleum, with Malenkov standing nearby.

Speech by Chairman of the Leningrad City Council Executive Committee Popkov P.S. Chairman of the Kalinin Regional Executive Committee Simonov delivers a speech from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Stalin, Kosygin, Molotov, Malenkov, and Kaganovich descend from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Faces of the participants in the funeral rally.

Stalin and Kosygin walk to the coffin with Kalinin's body, view of part of the rally.

Stalin, Beria, Molotov, Malenkov, Kosygin, Shvernik, and Bulganin carry the coffin with Kalinin's body to the Kremlin wall.