THE RUSSIA DELEGATION
BRINGS MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
HOME TO MOSCOW
THE SOVIET DELEGATION
IS ACED OUT
Russia Vice-President ALEKSANDR RUTSKOI
(center left, with dark hair and moustache) and
Russian Prime Minister IVAN SILAYEV
(center right, with white hair)
at the Congress of People's Deputies of
the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
July 1991
On Wednesday, August 21, 1991, a delegation of Russian leaders including Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi and Prime Minister Ivan Silayev flew to Foros in the Crimea, where Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was said to have been held against his will since Sunday, August 18th. A delegation of Soviet leaders flew in a separate plane. Gorbachev rejected them as implicated in the coup against him, and flew back to Moscow with the Russian delegation instead. His arrival in the early hours of August 22nd definitively ended the coup, but Gorbachev was soon to find he had stepped back into a very different political world.
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