I did a propaganda work among the workers and soldiers in St. Petersburg. I was a
Marxist still at school , but I tolerated for other revolutionary organizations, as long as they are called on to the socialism and actively fought against the autocracy.
I was a Marxist but standing closest to the Social Democrats. No one had heard about the Bolsheviks in the 1902-1905 in St. Petersburg. On the activity of the struggle against tsarism my sympathies were with the Socialist-Revolutionary Party and the Narodnaya Volya Party.
The program of these parties are provided for the terrorist struggle against tsarism and socialization not only of all the factories, but also the socialization of all land and confiscation of the landlords real estate.
All my comrades among the revolutionary students were the Social Democrats.
My best comrades were two brothers of Grigoriev, Nik Wittmann, Peter Malynin. – All of them were the students of Technological, Mining or Railway Universities in St. Petersburg.
The revolutionary organization gave me the connection to the workers and students. I got for practice study and conducting self-study two groups of workers of different plants, as well as female students (kursistok). Among these kursistok was the girl student and my future wife Kramskaya Anfisa Antonovna - a student of the Higher Women's (Bestuzhev) courses on Vasiljevsky Island.
Narodnaya Volya party members gave me a group of soldiers, most from the General Staff of the Imperial Army.
More information about General Staff buildinf is in the post "My propaganda work with the soldiers of the General Staff and the describtion of the building in which they served" of this blog.
The main headquarter of the General Staff was located in the heart of St. Petersburg on the Palace square opposite the Winter Palace.
It was impossible to assemble, and to carry out the revolutionary activities in the building of the General Staff in front of the Winter Palace and the soldiers one by one gathered and came to practice to my rented apartment.
The General Staff Building at present time.
I ( Adrian Fedorovich Timofeev) belonged to the Russian Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries. It was a major political party in early 20th century in Russia and a key player in the Russian Revolution. It won a plurality of the national vote in Russia's first-ever democratic elections. This election was to the RUSSIAN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY. This party was defeated and destroyed by the Bolsheviks.
