May 13, 1895
Was born Larisa Reisner"Valkyrie of the Revolution." Writer, poetess, commissar, and simply a beauty.
Clutching a scepter or sickle, A peasant or a queen, You are the foremother Eve...
She spent her childhood in Siberia—her father, a law professor, lectured at Tomsk University. Then, after living in Germany, the family settled in St. Petersburg.
Together with her father, who shared the ideas of Social Democracy and personally knew Liebknecht and Lenin, in 1915 they began publishing the magazine "Rudin." They denounced "all the ugliness of Russian life as the scourge of satire, caricature, and pamphleteering." Members of the "Circle of Poets," which included Larisa, also published their work there. Mandelstam, Sun. Rozhdestvensky.
In 1916, an affair happened with GumilevThey met at the bohemian restaurant "Comedian's Halt." Gumilev, unlike Reisner, didn't like the poetry she read. Larisa was hurt, but she couldn't resist the "unattractive" poet with his "enchanting, intent gaze."
I loved him so much that I would have gone anywhere
Akhmatova reacted calmly to the novel, merely remarking, "I write better poetry." It all ended quickly. In 1918, Gumilev married Anna Engelhardt. This was a blow for Larisa; she even remarked that if he were in danger, she wouldn't have saved him. Three years later, the poet was executed.
By that time, Larisa was already a heroine of the revolution - she married a Bolshevik Fyodor Raskolnikov, went on reconnaissance in Kazan, occupied by the White Czechs, was a commissar of the Naval General Staff, and participated in military operations.
Few learned to see revolution, to stare unblinkingly into the red-hot furnace where vanquished classes tossed in the flames, and entire strata of the old culture turned to ashes. And yet they watched... and painted the stunning, ugly, and incomparably beautiful face of revolution.
In 1921, she went to a diplomatic mission in Afghanistan. Later, she left her husband for a revolutionary. Carl RadekIn 1923, she left for Germany to prepare a communist uprising. She wrote essays, which later became the books "Afghanistan," "The Front," and "On the Barricades of Hamburg."
She died in 1926 from typhoid fever, before reaching the age of 31.
