Farewell to M.I. Kalinin (1946)

Mourning flags on buildings in the center of Moscow on the day of Kalinin M.I.'s death, June 6, 1946. Kalinin's portrait in a mourning frame on the facade of the House of Unions.

People on the streets of Moscow stand in lines at the Column Hall of the House of Unions to say goodbye to Kalinin.

People walk past the columns of the Bolshoi Theater.

Panorama of the line on Pushkinskaya Street (Bolshaya Dmitrovka) at the Column Hall of the House of Unions to say goodbye to Kalinin (above).

Mourning flags at the entrance to the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Kalinin in a coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Faces of Kalinin's family members and relatives sitting on chairs next to the coffin.

Kalinin's granddaughter on his son's lap.

Kalinin in a coffin.

The faces of the sons and granddaughters of Kalinin M.I. in the Column Hall of the House of Unions during the nationwide farewell to Kalinin.

Kalinin in a coffin.

The leaders of the party and the state approach Kalinin's coffin, stand in the guard of honor, the face of Shvernik N.M. standing in the guard of honor.

The face of Kosygin A.N. The faces of representatives of the leadership of Moscow and the Moscow region, the apparatus of the Council of Ministers of the USSR standing in the guard of honor.

Kalinin in a coffin.

A chandelier under the ceiling of the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

People walk past the coffin with Kalinin's body.

The line with the funeral portrait of Kalinin moves along Pushkinskaya Street to the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

The queue with the funeral portrait of Kalinin M.I. moves along Pushkinskaya Street to the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

People enter the doors of the Column Hall to say goodbye to Kalinin M.I., view of Pushkinskaya Street.

A chandelier under the ceiling of the Column Hall.

A crying woman in a black headscarf walks past Kalinin's coffin.

A chandelier under the ceiling of the Hall of Columns.

A crying woman in a black headscarf walks past Kalinin's coffin, wiping away her tears.

Faces of veterans of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), participants in the revolution, standing in the guard of honor at Kalinin's coffin.

People walk past Kalinin's coffin.

Interior view of part of the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions during the farewell to Kalinin (above).

Funeral decoration of the Hall of Columns, military personnel walk past Kalinin's coffin.

Faces of Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov G.K. and Marshal of Armored Forces Rybalko P.S., standing in the guard of honor at Kalinin's coffin.

Faces of Marshals of the Soviet Union Konev I.S. and Budyonny S.M., standing in the guard of honor.

Faces of military personnel walking past the coffin.

The faces of Marshal of the Soviet Union L.A. Govorov, Admiral of the Fleet N.G. Kuznetsov, standing in the guard of honor.

Navy sailors walk past Kalinin's coffin.

A crying girl among people passing by the coffin.

The face of Academician N.D. Zelinsky.

The face of Academician P.L. Kapitsa, standing in the guard of honor.

Interior view of a part of the Hall of Columns during the nationwide farewell to Kalinin (from above).

Representatives of Soviet science and employees of ministries and departments stand in the guard of honor.

People walk past the coffin with Kalinin's body.

Kalinin in the coffin.

Stalin I.V. stands in the guard of honor at Kalinin's coffin.

Malenkov G.M. and Stalin in the guard of honor.

The faces of Beria L.P., Molotov V.M., standing in the guard of honor.

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

Faces of Mikoyan AI, Andreev AA, standing in the guard of honor.

Face of Voznesensky NA Kalinin in the coffin.

Interior view of part of the Hall of Columns during the nationwide farewell to Kalinin (above).

Kovpak S.A. carries a funeral wreath.

Funeral wreaths at Kalinin's coffin, inscriptions on ribbons.

Kalinin's relatives approach the coffin for the last farewell.

Faces of Kalinin's widow Ekaterina Ivanovna and his relatives.

One of Kalinin's daughters says goodbye to him, standing at the coffin.

Stalin IV, Malenkov GM, Beria LP stand in the last guard of honor before the coffin with Kalinin's body is carried out to Red Square on June 6, 1946. Stalin stands in the guard of honor next to a sentry.

Molotov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan stand in the guard of honor.

Shvernik's face N.M. Zhdanov A.A. and Andreev A.A. stand in the guard of honor.

Voznesensky's face N.A. Bulganin N.A. stands in the guard of honor.

The guard of honor of the leaders of the party and state at Kalinin's coffin.

Kalinin in the coffin.

Views of the last guard of honor at Kalinin's coffin before it is carried out to Red Square.

Stalin, Beria and the leaders of the party and state remove the coffin with Kalinin's body from the funeral pedestal and carry it to the exit.