Vasily Anisimoff
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Vasily Afanasiev 1878 village Apanasovo-Tamashi, Kazan Governorate, Imperial Russia |
| Died | April 25, 1938 Stalin camps, shot, USSR () |
Vasìly Onisimovich Afanàsiev (alias Vasìly Anisimovich Anìsimoff) was a revolutionary and a propagandist of Marxism as well as a prominent activist and supporter of the Russian and international socialist movement. He was among the active members of the RSDLP and was a Menshevik. In 1925 Anisimoff became the deputy head of the economic department of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the RSFSR, managing the "Exportles" trust.
Anisimoff was the younger brother of a famous Soviet pedagogue , grandfather of the Soviet writer , and the great-grandfather of the composer and physicist Vladimir Anisimoff
Vasily Anisimovich Anisimoff (alias, né Vasily Onisimovich Afanasiev), the youngest child in the family of protopriest Father Onesimus (Onesimus Afanasiev), was born in 1878 in the remote village of Apanasovo-Tamashi of Kazan province (now Kazan region), to which his father, a graduate of the St. Petersburg Seminary, has been sent in the early 1870s to serve as the Dean of the local church.
Vasily Anisimoff entered the Kazan pedagogical Seminary and in 1898 successfully passed the examination for the title of magister. In 1905 Anisimoff graduated from the Kazan pedagogical Institute.
During the years of study at the Kazan pedagogical Institute, about mid-1902, he adopts a program and joins the social democratic movement which was spreading in the Saratov and Kazan provinces. Whilst a teacher at Kuznetsky mining school, on 6th of February 1907 he becomes a member of the II State Duma from the Saratov province.
Vasily Anisimoff was a big supporter of the democratic element in the Social democratic movement and as a result becoming a member of the Committee of the Social democratic faction and joining the Mensheviks. Vasily Anisimoff actively worked as a member of the food commission and commission for public education. In 1907 he is elected as the delegate of the 5th Congress of the RSDLP, which was held from April 30 to May 19, 1907 in London.
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