In the small gardens outside the Epiphany Cathedral is a statue to the revolutionary Nikolai Bauman. Bauman originally trained as a vet but subsequently became involved in the Bolshevik movement and became acquainted with Lenin in Zurich. In 1904 he was arrested in Moscow and whilst still in prison was beaten to death in 1905 by a member of the Black Hundreds organisation, making him one of the first Bolsheviks to be killed for the revolution. This statue to him was erected in 1931 in the district of Moscow which also bears his name.

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