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Notes: The back of the document holds the mention (in Russian and French): "The delegates to the IInd Congress of the IIIrd International, at Pavlovsk. In the middle of the group, Comrade Lilina. On her left, Mutzenberg".

Zlata (or Zinaida) Ionova Lilina (1881-1929) was Grigori Zinoviev's wife. Involved in children care and education, she was People's Commissar for Social Planning to the Northern Commun (organ of the Petrograd Soviet). Victor Serge (1890-1947) described her as "a small crop-haired, grey-eyed woman (...) sprightly and tough".

She stands in the middle of the group, with German delegate Willi Münzenberg (1889-1940) on her left. The man with a hat and a pipe may be Karl Radek (1885-1939). The man on the left, behind the woman in a white dress, may be Manabendra Nath Roy (1887-1954), delegate to Mexico, commissioned by Lenin to write the theses on national and colonial questions during the IInd Congress.

Unknown photographer.

Description: 1 photograph. Black and white ; 13 x 17.5 cm.

Sources and further reading: Fayet, Jean-François. 2004. Karl Radek (1885-1939): biographie politique. Bern: P. Lang.

Lazic, Branko M., and Milorad M. Drachkovitch. 1973. Biographical dictionary of the Comintern. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press.

Serge, Victor. 1963. Memoirs of a Revolutionary. London, New York: Oxford University Press. Re-ed. 2012. (Chapter 3, "Anguish and enthusiasm, 1919-1920").