Vladimir Fritsche
soviet literary and art scholar (1870–1929)
Vladimir Maksimovich Fritsche (Russian: Владимир Максимович Фриче; 27 October [O.S.] 15 October] 1870 – 4 September 1929) was a Russian and Soviet Marxist literary and art scholar, critic and academic.
Biography
Fritsche was born into a middle-class family of German origin in Moscow. After his family's departure to Germany, he supported himself financially by giving lessons. After graduating in 1889 with a medal from a German gymnasium, he entered the Faculty of History and Philology of Imperial Moscow University, where he studied first classical philology, then Western literature. He was the initiator of the creation, and then a member, of the Circle of Lovers of Western European Literature alongside Pyotr Kogan and Konstantin Balmont. After graduating from the university in 1894, Fritsche became a faculty member at the Department of General Literature. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905 and from 1905 to 1907 he was a member of the literary and lecture group of the RSDLP.
Fritsche was the founding editor of the magazine Zhurnalist in 1914, a magazine which was dedicated to analysis of mass media.
On 7 December 1917, he was appointed commissar for the protection of appanage and palace property in Moscow. In March 1918, he was Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars of the Moscow City Council.
After the Russian Civil War he was involved in educational and scientific activities.
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