Video: Love on the fire of revolution: Inessa Armand - the muse of Vladimir Lenin
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When it comes to the women of Vladimir Lenin, the imagination immediately draws the image of Nadezhda Krupskaya, famous for her fantastic hard work and all kinds of complicity with her husband in the revolution. But in the life of the leader of the world proletariat there was another woman, whom historians often call him a "muse" - Inessa Armand … She lived in the house of Lenin and Krupskaya, and the relations of all participants in this "triple" alliance were very specific …
Speaking of Inessa Armand (née Elizabeth Peshaux d'Erbenville), it is worth noting that she lived a very difficult life and was always devoted to the cause of the revolution. Her personal life was not easy: at first there was a marriage with Alexander Armand, the son of the largest Russian textile industrialist. In this union, four children were born. However, household chores could not completely captivate her, Inessa was actively involved in social activities, was an active defender of women's rights and freedoms. Inessa was well educated and intelligent, soon she was carried away by the ideas of socialism. She found support in Alexander's younger brother, Vladimir.
Vladimir introduced Inessa to the works of Lenin. She was so imbued with what she had read that she even started a correspondence with Ilyich. Communication in letters lasted several years, over the years Inessa has gone through a lot - she was arrested, managed to escape, buried Vladimir … After leaving Russia, she received an economic education in Brussels, where Inessa met Lenin personally.
Vladimir Ilyich offered Inessa a job as a housekeeper in their house in Paris. In addition to economic affairs, she was engaged in translations, publication of the works of the Central Committee of the Party, and prepared her own works. It was her that Lenin sent Russia in 1912 to establish agitation activities (the St. Petersburg propaganda cell was arrested). Inessa is also expected to be arrested again. This time she was released on bail left by her husband Alexander (Inessa immediately flees to Paris again).
As for relations with Nadezhda Krupskaya, there is an opinion that the leader's wife knew about the connection between Lenin and Armand, but did not interfere. Krupskaya even offered her husband a divorce, but Lenin did not agree to such a step. According to some reports, Lenin and Armand even had an illegitimate son, but this information has not been confirmed.
Inessa Armand died in 1920 from cholera. This was a real blow to Lenin, many are inclined to believe that this catalyzed his own illness (Ilyich survived his muse by only 3 years). After the tragic event, Krupskaya took Armand's children for upbringing, until the end of her life she kept in touch with them and took care of them. After the death of her husband, Krupskaya even wanted to bury him next to Inessa (the ashes of the revolutionary rests in the Kremlin wall), but her idea was not approved.
Inessa Armand went down in history, first of all, as an outstanding leader of the revolutionary movement. Women figured prominently in Soviet politics. So, for example, the revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai became famous as the world's first female ambassador.
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