24Smolny Institute
Petrograd, Russia Morning,
July 15, 1918
Mozger sat at his desk, trying to get through the mountain of paperwork that had piled up over the past week. As head of the Petrograd Soviet, he remained a constantly busy man who would often sleep in his office rather than go home to his tiny apartment. The other members of the soviet respected and feared him. He lived the life of the consummate Bolshevik, the new party man. Zinoviev himself actually resented Mozger, for he felt he should have been given the honor of heading the Petrograd Soviet. Trotsky agreed with Zinoviev, but it appeared that Mozger had allied with Stalin and those two continued, in Zinoviev’s opinion, to maneuver to get closer to Lenin. Mozger couldn't care less what Zinoviev thought. All he cared about
