Finland railway station

Lenin arrived in Petrograd in the early morning of April 4, 1917 at the Finland railway station, where he met his comrades in the party. By this time, the party had split in two, with the moderate Menshevik group on one side, and the radical Bolshevik on the other. The leader of the Petrograd Menshevik party, Chkheidze met Lenin as he disembarked and urged those present to seek party unity and solidarity with the democratic forces in society. In reply, Lenin declared that the revolution would continue; the proletariat will fight for the proletarian revolution throughout the world. After exiting to the square to the tune of "La Marseillaise,” Lenin addressed a huge crowd of demonstrators and repeated his speech while standing in an armored car. People gathered joyfully and welcomed Lenin. One participant of the event, Menshevik Nikolai Sukhanov, trumpeted his speech as "by, and for, the people.” In 1926, sculptor Sergei Yevseyev created the famous image of the leader of the world proletariat, calling for the masses to fight. The monument was first erected in front of the old Finland railway station, and then moved to the area in front of the new building of the Finland Station.