Kustaa Rovio

Rovio sheltered Vladimir Lenin in his apartment at 1 Hakaniemi Square, in the north of Helsingfors from 10 August 1917.

Lenin demanded Rovio to procure Russian newspapers every day and arrange the secret delivery of letters back to his party comrades.

[2][3] After Finnish civil war, Rovio fled to Russia and rose to political prominence in Karelia.

From 1920 to 1926, he was Commissar of the Petrograd International Military School and Vice-rector of the Leningrad branch of the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West.

Rovio's fate remained a mystery until 2002 when documents were released to the Memorial Society from the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation.