Vorovsky Vatslav Vatslavovich, Russian revolutionary: biography

Vaclav Vorovsky was a famous Bolshevik-revolutionary. After the establishment of Soviet power, he became a prominent diplomat. Vorovsky was killed in Switzerland during his visit to the next international conference.

early years

The future revolutionary Vorovski Vatslav Vatslavovich was born on October 27, 1871 in Moscow. He was a descendant of the Russified family of Poles-nobles. The boy was left without a father early. Like many Poles, he received a primary education in a school at the church. Already at a teenage age, he showed up the makings of a revolutionary. The student wrote poetry, in which he criticized the tsarist government, and participated in illegal gatherings of peers.

In 1890, Vorovsky Vatslav Vatslavovich entered the Moscow State University, but a year later decided to continue his education at the Imperial Moscow Technical School. The student took part in the activities of Polish national circles.

Links and emigration

It was the national question that prompted the young man to associate his life with the revolutionaries. His studies at the school were cut off exactly in the middle, when in 1894 a radical student was sent to Vologda because of the approaching coronation of Nicholas II and the celebrations associated with it in Moscow. Education Vorovskii still received. In 1897, he graduated from the school, and two years later he was arrested and sent into exile in Vyatka province.

After serving time, Vorovsky Vatslav Vatslavovich decided to emigrate. For the revolutionary this decision was the most logical. All the leaders of the extreme left parties at that time lived in Western Europe, expecting a social explosion in their homeland. Vorovsky settled in Geneva. There he joined the Bolsheviks.

Publicist

In the party, Vaclav's workplace was the newspaper Iskra. He was one of the most active and prolific of its employees. Success in journalism made Vorovsky a prominent figure among the Bolsheviks. In 1903 he received a responsible party task - to organize an underground work in Odessa. The emigrant arrived there illegally. The newspaper "Iskra" began to appear in the city in an increased circulation. The revolutionaries aimed in the right direction. In the multinational and ebullient Odessa there was a good environment for the growth of discontent.

Due to his ethnicity, Vorovski Vatslav Vatslavovich effectively performed one more function, being the person who carried out the connection between the leftist Polish organizations and the Bolsheviks. When the first Russian revolution began in 1905 , he moved to St. Petersburg. In the capital, Vorovsky once again showed himself as an effective organizer. He bought weapons for combat detachments that fought with government troops in the most stressful days of the crisis.

Work in Scandinavia

When Lenin was traveling in a sealed car back to Russia after years of absence at home, he decided to make Vorovsky a member of the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party. This organization was based in Stockholm. She had to establish ties with foreign supporters and maintain part of the party's ticket office. In addition to Vorovsky, this bureau included other Bolshevik revolutionaries - Yakov Ganetsky and Karl Radek.

For the Bolshevik this was an important experience that influenced all his future party and life path. He was not yet a diplomat, but he performed many similar functions. The work of Vorovsky in Stockholm turned out to be in vain. When in October 1917 his party came to power in Russia, he was appointed her plenipotentiary representative in Scandinavia.

However, the revolutionary managed to stay in Sweden for a while. In March 1918, Lenin signed a separate peace with Germany. After that, the Entente terminated diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia and began its international blockade. Under her blow, fell and Vorovsky Wenceslas Vaclavovich. The biography of this man is an example of a constantly moving executor of party assignments. And now he had to leave Sweden, so as not to be arrested.

Plenipotentiary in Italy

During the civil war, Vorovsky stayed in Russia. He again took up the familiar publishing business, taking up the post of head of the State Publishing House. His abilities and talents were once again needed for Lenin, when the Bolsheviks began to take the first steps to get out of international isolation. In 1921, Soviet Russia had an ambassador in Italy. They became Vatslav Vorovsky. A monument to one of the first Soviet diplomats stands at the former building of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. And this is not surprising. Vorovsky became a vivid representative of the cohort of the first Soviet diplomats.

The post of plenipotentiary in Italy was important also because in 1922 Genoa hosted a famous conference with the participation of delegates from the RSFSR and the Entente countries. The head of the mission was appointed Georgy Chicherin, who replaced the sick and left in Russia Lenin. Vaclav Vorovsky was his right hand. At the Genoa Conference , the first economic ties between the RSFSR (the USSR was not yet established) and the countries of Europe were established. By that time, it became clear that the Bolsheviks had won a civil war. Now the governments of the Entente countries had nothing to do but negotiate with the new Kremlin residents. Vorovsky at the conference was one of the most notable Soviet diplomats. Thanks to his efforts (and the efforts of other members of the delegation), the Soviet government managed to achieve the long-awaited diplomatic victory.

Murder

In the new 1923, Vorovsky went to Lausanne in Switzerland to take part in the next international conference. On May 10, the diplomat was shot in the restaurant of a local hotel. The murderer was a Swiss citizen and former White Guard officer Maurice Conradi. He lost his family during the civil war in Russia and hated the Bolsheviks with his whole being.

The shooter started the trial, but the jury acquitted him. As defense lawyers used documented facts of atrocities during the civil war. After the acquittal, the Swiss authorities confined themselves to deporting the murderer Vorovsky. This did not help the relations between the two countries. Diplomatic contacts between the USSR and Switzerland have temporarily ceased. The body of Vaslav Vorovsky after the murder was sent to Moscow. He was buried in Red Square.