1906 Helsinki bank robbery

A branch of Russian State Bank was robbed by members of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party to fund Bolshevik revolutionary activities in Russia.

A notable participant in the robbery was Jānis Žāklis, who is widely suspected of being the alleged mastermind of the robberies that led to the Siege of Sidney Street known as Peter the Painter.

On their way to meet him, three gang members were captured in the village of Kerava after one Russian gendarme was shot dead.

The gang leader Jānis Čoke and three other robbers were able to reach Tampere where they handed the money over to Burenin.

[2] He later fled with it to the United States on Maxim Gorki's fund raising trip as his personal secretary.