Assassination of Sergei Kirov

Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary (1886–1934)

report by Nikita Khrushchev on 25 Feb. 1956, sharply critical of Stalin, charging him with a cult of personality

revolver

school building

Soviet jurist of Baltic German origin (1889–1951)

Russian assassin (1904–1934)

1934 murder of a Soviet statesman triggered the Great Purge in the Soviet Union

building in St. Petersburg (Russia)

1935 attempt to assassinate Stalin