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Anatoly Lunacharsky
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Soviet People's Commissar (minister) of Education, as well as an active playwright, critic, essayist, and journalist throughout his career.
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culture · Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman and writer (1875–1933) · playwright · politician · writer · diplomat · journalist · actor · philosopher · literary critic · screenwriter · art historian · also Anatoly Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasil'yevich Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, Lunaçarski, Lunacharsky
Born 11 November 1875 · Died 26 December 1933 · Q18809
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1933· 2 entries
Died 1933-12-26.
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Was appointed ambassador to Spain, a post he never assumed, as he died en route
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1930· 1 entry
Established a government commission to research satirical genres in all kinds of art
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1929· 2 entries
Lunacharsky was appointed to the Learned Council of the Soviet Union Central Executive Committee
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Lunacharsky supported a change in the Russian alphabet, latinizing it from Cyrillic to Latin
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1927· 1 entry
Described her as "one of his most recent wives", and as "a beautiful woman from the front, much less beautiful if you looked at her predatory profile"
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1926· 1 entry
Wrote "the freshness and rich imagination characteristic of Prokofiev attest to his exceptional talent"
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1924· 1 entry
Pasternak's wife wrote to his cousin saying "so far, Lunacharsky has never refused to see Borya"
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1923· 2 entries
Which included portraits of Trotsky, Zinoviev, and Martov, but failed to mention Stalin
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Launched a Back to Ostrovsky movement to mark the centenary of Russia's first great playwright
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1922· 1 entry
Met Natalya Rozenel, an actress at the Maly Theatre
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1920· 1 entry
Told George Lansbury: "So far, cinemas are not much use owing to shortage of materials
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1919· 1 entry
Working with Maxim Gorky, Alexander Blok and Maria Andreyeva
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1918· 2 entries
To transfer Russia's capital to Moscow and stayed for a year in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) and left the running of his commissariat to his deputy, Mikhail Pokrovsky
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When most Bolsheviks despised experimental art, Lunacharsky praised Mayakovsky's play Mystery-Bouffe, directed by Meyerhold, which he described as "original, powerful and beautiful"
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1915· 1 entry
Lunacharsky and Pavel Lebedev-Poliansky restarted the social democratic newspaper Vpered with an emphasis on proletarian culture
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1914· 1 entry
Lunacharsky adopted an internationalist antiwar position, which put him on a course of convergence with Lenin and Leon Trotsky
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1911· 1 entry
Lunacharsky moved to Paris, where he started his own Circle of Proletarian Culture
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1910· 1 entry
Bogdanov, Lunacharsky, Mikhail Pokrovsky and their supporters moved the school to Bologna, where they continued teaching classes through 1911
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1909· 1 entry
Lunacharsky joined Bogdanov and Maxim Gorky at the latter's villa on the island of Capri, where they started a school for Russian socialist workers
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1908· 1 entry
When the Bolsheviks split between Lenin's supporters and Alexander Bogdanov's followers, Lunacharsky supported his brother-in-law Bogdanov in setting up a new Vpered
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1907· 1 entry
Attended the International Socialist Congress held in Stuttgart
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1904· 1 entry
Moved to Geneva and became one of Lenin's most active collaborators and an editor of the first exclusively Bolshevik newspaper, Vpered
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1903· 1 entry
The RSDLP split between the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the Mensheviks
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1902· 1 entry
Married Anna Alexandrovna Malinovskaya, Alexander Bogdanov's sister
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1899· 1 entry
Lunacharsky returned to Russia, where he and Maria Ulyanova (Vladimir Lenin's sister) revived the Moscow Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), until they were betrayed by an informant and arres
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1890· 1 entry
At the age of 15, Lunacharsky became a Marxist
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1875· 1 entry
Born 1875-11-11.
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