A Horse Led at Mikhail Frunze's Funeral: His Own

At the funeral of Mikhail Frunze, his horse was led in the procession. 3 November 1925, Red Square, photograph by Arkady Shaikhet.

The horse became a full participant in the funeral cortège and walked behind its master's coffin together with the leaders of the Soviet state: Stalin, Zinoviev, Kamenev and Rykov.

Mikhail Frunze, People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR, was known for his love of horses and his anxiety over the fate of horse breeding in the country, and is considered the first of the Soviet nomenklatura to take military parades on horseback

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A Horse Led at Mikhail Frunze's Funeral: His Own

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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