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# Photograph of Stalin in the Kremlin in August 1941, preserved despite an order to destroy it
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/stalin-v-kremle-v-avguste-1941-goda-kogda-on-uznal-o-nastuplenii-nemetskikh-voisk-na-kiev/
- Published: 2021-07-30T10:50:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:08:42.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Moscow, Society, People

Stalin in the Kremlin in August 1941, when he learned of the German advance on Kyiv. The photograph was taken by Boris Burkov, editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, and preserved in defiance of an order to destroy the frame as showing the leader in an unflattering light. It is sometimes said to have been taken on the day Stalin learned of the attack on the USSR, but this is highly unlikely