Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov
Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov, also known under the pseudonyms Andrei, Mikhalych, Max, Smirnov and Permyakov'. He was a Bolshevik party leader and an official of the Russian Soviet Republic, involved in the 1905 and 1917 revolutions. He ordered the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family -- Yekaterinburg where they died was renamed Sverdlovsk in 1924 in his honour, not reverting to its original name until 1991
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10289715
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46070783
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3249px x 4698px
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Credit
Mary Evans / John Massey Stewart Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
1885 - 1919
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