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Thomas Dworzak This photo is taken at the Hotel Goldener Loewe in Zimmerwald, the Swiss municipality where exiled international socialist groups met at a conference in September 1915 in order to unite their strug (...)
Thomas Dworzak Lenin’s wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, would accompany him on the 1917 train journey from exile in Switzerland. Krupskaya was conscious that there was “no outlet for his colossal energy” in Switzerla (...)
Thomas Dworzak Lenin lived in Geneva from 1903. He would regularly cycle to the reading room at the university library and meet with fellow exiles. Falling over tram tracks and landing violently on his face, i (...)
Thomas Dworzak Neutral Sweden offered a feast of food for the starved revolutionaries when they got off the Sassnitz-Trellborg ferry and were treated by the Swedish social democrats in Malmoe’s best hotel. Karl (...)
Thomas Dworzak Crossing Germany in the 'sealed' train to Sassnitz: From the moment the train entered Germany, very strict rules of extraterritoriality were enforced. A chalk line separated where the Russians we (...)
Thomas Dworzak At 3.10pm on Easter Monday 1917, Lenin and his entourage boarded a train at Zurich Central Station for Russia. It was a mixture of Zimmerwaldian internationalism, the aftermath of the February Re (...)
Thomas Dworzak Anxious to cross into Russia, Lenin and his comrades were looking across the frozen river Torne from Sweden towards Finland, then part of the Russian empire. During World War I, Tornio was one of (...)
Thomas Dworzak Waiting for the train north to Swedish Lapland, Lenin and his comrades had a whole day to spend in Stockholm. Swedish Communists insisted on taking Lenin shopping in the bourgeois PUB department st (...)
Thomas Dworzak The longest stretch of the journey was the train ride from Stockholm all the way to the Northern shore of the Gulf of Bothnia, close to the Arctic circle, with changes in Braecke, Boden and Lulea. (...)
Thomas Dworzak The Lenin Museum in Tampere was the first museum dedicated to Lenin outside of the Soviet Union. The museum is located in the Tampere Workers' Hall, where Lenin and Stalin met for the first time. (...)
Thomas Dworzak Late at night on April 16, Lenin's train pulled into Finland station, where a jubilant crowd was expecting them. A woman ran up and handed him a bouquet of flowers, 'a pointless object in his vi (...)
Thomas Dworzak Late at night on Palace Square in front of the Winter Palace and Hermitage Museum, the site of key moments of the 1917 Russian Revolution. A thrown away Burger King paper crown covered in snow. (...)
Thomas Dworzak RUSSIA. St. Petersburg. 16 April 2017. 100th anniversary of Lenin's arrival at Finnland station. Burger King crown on Parade square in from of the Eremitage, site of the October Revolution. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak RUSSIA. St. Petersburg. 16 April 2017. 100th anniversary of Lenin's arrival at Finnland station. Burger King crown on Parade square in from of the Eremitage, site of the October Revolution. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak RUSSIA. St. Petersburg. April 2017. Kunstkammer of Peter the Great. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak RUSSIA. St. Petersburg. April 2017. Museum of the history of Russia, Lenins old office, paintings celebrating his arrival, etc. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak RUSSIA. St. Petersburg. April 2017. Lenin, Stalin, Ghadafi, Putin, Pusshkin, Beria... etc.... © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak RUSSIA. St. Petersburg. April 2017. Finland Station. A handful of communists commemorate Lenin's arrival a hundred years earlier. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak 1917 exhibition. Zurich, Switzerland. 03-04/2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak RUSSIA. St. Petersburg. April 2017. Finland Station. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Now toy/design shop in basement. View from house where Lenin used to live, Spiegelgasse 14. Zurich, Switzerland. 3-4/2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak RUSSIA. St. Petersburg. 16 April 2017. 100th anniversary of Lenin's arrival at Finnland station. People waiting for passengers arriving on highspeed train Allegro from Helsinki. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Performance of ”Lenin's Train" in historical train reenacting the beginning of the epic trip on the exact day 100 years later. Zurich, Switzerland. 04/2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak SWITZERLAND, Zurich. 2017/04. Screening of "Il Treno" film with Ben Kingsley as Lenin. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Cabaret Voltaire. Zurich, Switzerland. 03-04/2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Lenin plaque. Geneva, Switzerland. 04/2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Strahlsund to Sassnitz. Germany. 09-10/2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak SWITZERLAND, Zurich. 2017/04. Performance "Lenin's train" in historical train reenacting the beginning of the epic trip on the exact day 100 years later. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Berlin by night, former WW1 German military headquarters. Germany. 09-10/2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Performance of "Lenin's Train" in historical train reenacting the beginning of the epic trip on the exact day 100 years later. Rheinfall/Schaffhausen, Switzerland. 04/2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak SWEDEN, 2017/04. Malmö. Train station. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Stockholm-Lulea train.Sweden. 04/2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak SWEDEN, 2017/04. Malmö. Nighttrain to Stockholm. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Stockholm, Sweden. 2017/04. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak FINLAND, 2017/04. Tampere. Lenin Museum. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Commemoration of the truck ISIS terror attack a few days earlier in the pedestrian zone. Stockholm, Sweden. 04/2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Lenin Museum. Tampere, Finland. 04/2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak FINLAND, 2017/04.Tornio. River border between Sweden/Finland. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Wifi for refugees. Haparanda, Sweden. 04/2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak River border between Sweden/Finland. Tornio, Finland. 04/2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos