Vasily Anisimoff

Vasìly Onisimovich Afanàsiev (alias Vasìly Anisimovich Anìsimoff) was a revolutionary and propagandist of Marxism and 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 trust "Exportles".

Anisimoff was the younger brother of the famous Soviet pedagogue Pyotr Afanasiev, the grandfather of the Soviet writer Vladimir Amlinsky, and the great-grandfather of the composer and physicist Vladimir Anisimoff

Biography
Vasily Anisimovich Anisimoff (alias, original name at birth was Vasily Onisimovich Afanasiev), the youngest child in the family of archpriest Father Onesimus (in the world 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, had 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 he successfully passed the examination for the title of magister, then in 1905 he graduated from the Kazan pedagogical Institute. Within the years of study at the Kazan pedagogical Institute, about mid-1902, he adopts a program and is adjacent to the social democratic movement spread widely in Saratov and Kazan province. Being a teacher Kuznetsky mining school he is nominated by the elector on Kuznetsk district and 6 February 1907 became a member of the II State Duma from the Saratov province. Vasily Anisimoff always gravitated to the beginning of the democratic Social democratic movement and the result of being a member of the Committee of the Social democratic faction he joined the Mensheviks. Vasily Anisimoff actively worked as a member of the food Commission and Commission on public education. In 1907 he was elected Delegate of the 5th Congress of the RSDLP, which was held from April 30 to May 19, 1907 in London. After the dissolution of the second State Duma by the decision of the Special presence of the Senate on December 1, 1907 Vasily Anisimoff was one of 16 deputies from the Social Democrats, the issuance of which the government demanded on the eve of the dissolution of the Duma,  and he was sentenced as member of the Social democratic faction of the II State Duma to 5 years of Russian Penal colony. Vasily Anisimoff was concluded in St. Petersburg transit prison, then Alexandrov Central unbearable prison in Irkutsk province. Next Vasily Anisimoff takes part in the Siberian legal Social-democratic press. In 1916 in Chita he was elected Secretary of the TRANS-Baikal Association of cooperatives whom were under the influence of Social-democratic ideas. After the 1917 February revolution in March 1917, he returned from Siberia to Petrograd. Participates in the work of the I-th all-Russian Congress of Soviets of workers' and soldiers' deputies, became a member of the Bureau of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd, and one of the companions (in a modern Deputy) of Chairman of Petrograd Soviet since May 1917 until the resignation of the Menshevik Presidium in early September of that year. Also Vasily Anisimoff actively works in the Temporary Council of the Russian Republic (pre-Parliament). There he is adjacent to the "left" wing, headed by Lev Kamenev, who sought the peaceful development of the revolution. However, as you know, "right" wing at the head Leon Trotsky and Lenin won. After this events Vasily Anisimoff returned to Siberia. The whole period of the Russian Civil War he spent in Siberia. In 1918-1919 he takes part in Irkutsk newspaper "Business" whom fought against the dictatorship of the proletariat. In 1921 Vasily Anisimoff becomes a member of the Constituent Assembly of the far Eastern Republic, one of the few representatives of the Social democratic Mensheviks in the coalition Communist-socialist government last. From 1918 to 1924 he worked in Siberia by the employee of the newspaper "Our Business", then Minister of industry buffer far Eastern Republic. In 1923-1924 Vasily Anisimoff was nominated for the post of Chairman of the state trust "Far Eastern forest" in Vladivostok. In Moscow he became Deputy head of the economic Department of VSNKh (the Supreme Council of national economy) of the RSFSR and simultaneously managing trust "Exportles". In the revelry of Stalinist repression in 1937, as was usual in those days, after a tip-off right at home at night Vasily Anisimoff was arrested and sent to the Stalinist camps. On April 25, 1938 by the decision of the notorious triple he was declared an "enemy of the people" and sentenced to execution by firing squad. The sentence was enforced immediately in Kommunarka village of Moscow region.