The illegal print shop in Kursk. I base the party of the Socialist Revolutionaries in Kursk in 1903

Revolutionary and information activities of political parties in Russia have increased significantly in 1900-1907.

I was a student of Mathematics Department of  St. Petersburg Imperial University in this period.  I was a student of   Kiev’s  Imperial University of St. Vladimir in 1898-1900 too.

Visiting  of the University was not necessary for students.  We have established the timetable of visiting our classes  ourselves. The students  could not visit there university  over the years.  I had not practical classes on my Department  of  Mathematics in St. Petersburg.

I was in Kursk every summer during  the vacation time and sometimes in the winter too.

Some members of our family in front of our house in Kursk . 

 Me  ( Adrian Fedorovich Timofeev) is   on the right.

I tried to do revolutionary work  during  the  vacation time    in my homeland in Kursk.

There was not  large-scale industry  in Kursk in that period and  there were only certain groups of workers.  Our work was  primarily for revolutionizing  of the peasant masses.

I found  a hectograph and started  the  printing of  the proclamations.

I putted up printed  proclamations throughout the city on the houses and fences myself.

I  sent out some of the  printed proclamations  to the factories and villages. 

I printed the proclamations without changing my  handwriting. I ordered a special big round seal  for greater credibility. It was  engraved on this seal:

 “"Everybody can  find  there rights in the struggle . The Kursk Regional  Committee of the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries”.

Although the entire committee and the entire party in Kursk consisted of a single person, myself! 

Znamensky Monastery in Kursk (1905).

                             The Triumphal Arch on Moscow street in Kursk (1900).

                                                    The Moscow street in Kursk (1910).

This information is taken from the diary of Adrian Fedorovich Timofeev (1882-1954) – the mathematician, socialist, revolutionary, financier and banker.

The full text of diary is on :

opentextnn.ru/history/familisarchives/Timofeyevs_family_Archives/Adrian_Timo

The Annenkov house in the center of Moscow.

This  building was built in 1776 for the Governor-General of Siberia Prince Jacobi. 
Decembrist  Ivan Annenkov  spent his childhood and adolescence   in this house. This building became very profitable in 19th century  because of  the  hotels, restaurants, and cafes placed in it.

These places was  liked to visit by  the famous Moscow writers, poets, musicians and artists  in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Here was  the famous cafe Tramble (Tremble) which  liked to visit  Ivan Alekseevich Bunin  the outstanding Russian writer and  Nobel Prize winner  for literature in 1933, revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and many other  poets, musicians and artists.

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The Tramble cafe in the center of Moscow  which was famous among artists, writers, painters and musicians.

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Attempt of stealing of 320,000 rubles (800,000.00 US dollars) from the  Moscow branch of the Siberian Trade Bank  in January 1917.

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Famous Tramble cafe (1901).