13 Facts About Larissa Reissner

Larissa Reissner spent her early childhood in Tomsk, where her father was appointed Professor of Law at the University in 1897.

Larissa Reissner was her first lover; she idolised him, and tried to imitate his poetry.

Larissa Reissner met Gumilyov's wife, the poet Anna Akhmatova, at the Comedian's Halt and burst into tears of gratitude when Akhmatova shook hands with her.

Larissa Reissner took part in the Provisional Government's spelling reform programme, teaching at workers' and sailors' clubs in Petrograd.

Larissa Reissner became a member of the Bolshevik Party in 1918, marrying Fyodor Raskolnikov in the summer of that year.

Larissa Reissner served as chief of an intelligence section of the Volga River flotilla in August 1918 battle for Sviazhsk.

Larissa Reissner sent a bag of rice to Anna Akhmatova, who was close to starvation, and met her to complain bitterly about how Gumilyov had treated her.

Larissa Reissner introduced her; the name meant nothing to me.

Larissa Reissner replied: 'She'snot an outsider - she's Radek's friend, Larissa Reissner.

Larissa Reissner wrote articles on a corruption scandal in Byelorussia.

Larissa Reissner died on 9 February 1926, in the Kremlin Hospital, Moscow, from typhoid; she was 30 years old.

Larissa Reissner was anxious to know and to see all, and to take part in everything.

Larissa Reissner wanted so much to live; she was cheerful, healthy, beautiful.