Larisa Reisner

Larisa Mikhailovna Reisner (Russian: Лариса Михайловна Рейснер; 1 (13) May 1895 – 9 February 1926) was a Russian writer. She is best known for her leadership roles on the side of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War that followed the October Revolution and for being the wife of Fyodor Raskolnikov and the mistress of Karl Radek.

Larisa Reisner was born in Lublin, Poland, into the family of Michael Andreevich Reisner, a law professor in Lublin, and Ekaterina Alexandrovna Khitrova.

She spent her early childhood in Tomsk, where her father was appointed Professor of Law at the University in 1897. Between 1903 an 1907, she and her family resided in Berlin, Germany, where the family fled because of the father's political activity, with Larisa attending a primary school in the Zehlendorf district. In the aftermath of the 1905-06 Russian Revolution, they moved to Saint Petersburg where she passed her final school exams with a gold medal in 1912 and went on to study at St Petersburg University, including studying courses at the Faculty of Law and Philology as well as psychoneurology at the Bekhterev Research Institute.

During the First World War, she published an anti-war literary journal, Rudin, financially supported by her parents who pawned their possessions to fund it

After the February Revolution, Larisa began to write for Maxim Gorky's paper Novaya Zhizn (New Life). She also took part in the Provisional Government's spelling reform programme, teaching at workers' and sailors' clubs in Petrograd. After the October revolution, Larisa worked at the Smolny Institute with Anatoly Lunacharsky, cataloguing art treasures.

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