Crown Tavern Clerkenwell Green February 4, 2016 at 750 × 1000 in London Series – Clerkenwell and Smithfield – Crime, revolutions and executions ← Previous Next → It is reputed that Lenin and Stalin met in this pub in 1903. Issues 22 to 38 of he party newspaper Iskra (the spark) where published in offices at 37a Clerkenwell Green.