The current building of the PUB trading house was built in 1916. (The old PUB building was located on the same square, on the site of the current concert hall.) The future actress Greta Garbo began her career here in 1920 as a saleswoman in the hat department (she was 14 years old and her father died of the Spanish flu). Swedish travel guides to Stockholm report that in April 1917, on his way from Germany to Petrograd, V.I. Lenin was shopping in this department store. However, Lenin did not make the purchases himself. The Swedish left-wing Social Democrats raised money to buy him a new suit and shoes (apparently, the old ones were badly worn out). Since Lenin did not have time to visit the store, Nils Bjorkman, a bookbinder, was entrusted with the purchase of the suit. Among the tall Swedes, Bjorkman stood out for his small height - 165 cm, which made him look like Lenin. He went to a department store and bought a suit to fit his figure. Bjorkman bought a coat with a velvet collar additionally - on his own initiative and with his own money, as a sign of respect for the Russian revolutionary. In this coat, Lenin is often present in post-revolutionary photographs. I should note that the leaders of the Swedish Social Democracy, led by Hjalmar Branting, refused to meet with the Russians at that time.

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