This young woman swept like a meteor across the sky of the Russian revolution. The appearance of the goddess was combined in Larisa Reisner with the will, determination and courage of a warrior. Her literary works are full of subtle irony. And legends were made about the stormy personal life of the fiery revolutionary.
From the biography of Larisa Reisner
Larisa Reisner was born in 1895 in Lublin. Her father was a lawyer, taught law. Reisner's younger brother, Igor Mikhailovich, later became a doctor of historical sciences, a prominent specialist in the East, India and Afghanistan.
Larisa spent her childhood in Tomsk. Her father taught at a local university. At the beginning of the 20th century, Professor Reisner was teaching in Germany. Therefore, Larisa had a chance to visit this country.
In 1905, the family moved to St. Petersburg. There was always abundance in the house. However, from a young age, children were carried away by the ideas of social democracy. Larisa's father was familiar with Karl Liebknecht, August Bebel, Vladimir Lenin. This determined the circle of vital interests of the girl and her worldview.
Larisa graduated from high school with honors, after which she entered the Psychoneurological Institute, where her father worked in those years.
In 1913 Larisa Reisner published her first work. It was the romantic play Atlantis.
Two years later, Reisner, together with her father, began publishing a literary magazine, where they branded the life of contemporary Russia. In her feuilletons and poems, Larisa ridiculed the customs of the bourgeois intelligentsia. The Reisners considered Georgy Plekhanov's views on the war to be opportunism, and criticized his "defencism". However, in 1916 the satirical magazine had to be closed - there was not enough money to publish it.
Valkyrie of the Revolution
Before the February Revolution, Reisner became an employee of the Letopis magazine and the newspaper Novaya Zhizn, published by Gorky.
In 1917, Larisa actively participates in the work of the executive committee of the Soviets. After the victory of the October Revolution, she was entrusted with the work of preserving the monuments of art. For some time Larisa Reisner was Anatoly Lunacharsky's secretary.
In 1918, Reisner became a member of the CPSU (b). With her party card, she is making a dizzying career in politics. Reisner served as commissar of the General Staff of the RSFSR Navy, organized political work in the reconnaissance detachment of the 5th Army.
In August 1918, Reisner was sent on a reconnaissance mission to Kazan, occupied by the White Czechs.
From December 1918, Reisner, at the direction of Trotsky, was the commissar of the Naval General Staff. During the Civil War, Larisa more than once directly participated in hostilities and daring reconnaissance operations.
Reisner after the Civil War
In the early 1920s, Larisa Mikhailovna leads an active literary and social life in Petrograd. Then she met Alexander Blok. Then Reisner, as part of the diplomatic mission, is sent to Afghanistan. The mission was headed by Larisa's husband, F. Raskolnikov. But the marriage did not stand the test of time. The couple broke up. Perhaps one of the reasons for the breakup was Larisa's penchant for an open relationship. Among her many admirers were Nikolai Gumilev and Karl Radek.
Upon returning from Afghanistan to Moscow, Reisner happened to work as a correspondent for Izvestia and Krasnaya Zvezda. In 1923, Larissa witnessed the uprising in Hamburg. This period is described in her book "Hamburg on the Barricades" (1924).
Reisner's last major work is historical sketches on the theme of the Decembrist uprising.
Larisa Reisner passed away on February 9, 1926. She was only 30 years old. Typhoid fever became a common death. Exhausted by personal experiences and tired of work, Larisa could not cope with the disease.
