1925 Death of Mikhail Frunze

90 years ago, on October 31, 1925, Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze, chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR and People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, died after an operation on a stomach ulcer. Immediately after his death, a version appeared, reflected in Boris Pilnyak's "The Tale of the Unextinguished Moon": Frunze was allegedly killed by order of Stalin, who forced Mikhail Vasilyevich to undergo an operation.

In fact, Frunze himself insisted on the operation, as he hoped that it would help to overcome the disease that prevented him from working fully. And according to the medical report, the hidden pathologies that appeared during the operation led to death: local peritonitis (a consequence of an unsuccessful appendicitis operation in 1916) and a diseased heart. Peritonitis caused after the operation acute purulent inflammation of the peritoneum, which led to cardiac arrest.