V. I.

Lenin

Newspaper Report

Comrade Lenin devoted his short speech to reminiscences of
Comrade Zagorsky, whom he had met abroad, where the deceased had lived as a
political emigrant in 1907 and when Lenin visited the workers’ circles of
comrades living abroad and circles of Russian emigrants to read lectures
and reports. Already in those days Comrade Zagorsky, who was secretary of
the Geneva group of Bolsheviks, impressed one as being an energetic, clever
man and a good organiser devoted heart and soul to the cause of the
Party. When Zagorsky returned to Moscow in 1918 he threw himself into Party
work and was shortly elected secretary of the Moscow organisation, at which
honourable post he died during the explosion in Leontievsky

Pereulok. [1]