In the fire of the revolution: Maria Spiridonova, Larisa Reisner. Mayorova E.

The book is dedicated to the fate of two figures of the era of the indigenous transformations of Russia-Maria Spiridonova (1884-1941) and Larisa Reisner (1895-1926). These women were unlikely to personally meet in a stormy stream of revolutionary events, rotating in different circles and experiencing the same circumstances differently. But it is precisely the look from different sides that allows us to more correctly evaluate the fateful revolutionary time.

Maria Spiridonova mortally wounded the punisher, who brutally suppressed peasant riots. The tsarist court sentenced the girl to execution, but under the influence of public opinion the gallows was replaced by unlimited hard labor. In 1918, she was one of the leaders of the Levo -Socialist Revolutionary rebellion. Maria Spiridonova survived the link, poverty, betrayal of loved ones.

The extraordinary fate was prepared by Larisa Reisner. Clever, a beauty, from a young age, participated in the artistic life of St. Petersburg, in her honor B. Pasternak named the main character of the novel “Doctor Zhivago” Lara. The Commissar woman from the play by V. Vishnevsky is also Larisa...

an unsuccessful romance with Nikolai Gumilev, who did not accept the revolution, brought Larisa to the Bolshevik camp. She was appointed Commissioner of the Naval Staff. In the Navy, she became the wife of Fedor Raskolnikov, who later gained fame thanks to the exposing open letter to Stalin. Larisa’s love affair with Lev Trotsky had his consequence to receive a new position of commissar intelligence department at his headquarters and a link to Afghanistan, when Trotsky was in disgrace. Reisner and Raskolnikov managed to upset the plans of England and achieve important success in the diplomatic field.