By the end of 1949, Mao travels to Moscow, to negotiate a friendship treaty with Stalin. He is received in the grand halls of the Kremlin, together with his Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhou Enlai, on the right, chatting with the former Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov (Молотов). Andrei Vyshinsky (Выши́нский), acting Minister of Foreign affairs, is on the left.