Rasliv (Russia)

Rasliw ( Russian Разлив ) refers to a settlement and train station on the Primorsky railway line, 32 km from Saint Petersburg and home of a large part of the workers of the Sestrorezk armaments plant. The place became famous because Vladimir Ilyich Lenin hid there in 1917 after the failed Juliet uprising during the revolution . Today the settlement is a southern part of the city of Sestrorezk, which is subordinate to Saint Petersburg.

history

On the way to illegality, during the night of July 10 or 23, 1917, VI Lenin from Petrograd came to see the worker Nikolai Alexandrovich Jemelyanov in Razliv. Lenin spent a few days in the attic of the shed near Emelyanov's house. Later Lenin was housed in a tabernacle specially built for him by a haystack on the other, eastern bank of Lake Rasliv (Sestrorezki Rasliv).

Lenin lived in the tabernacle and worked on the theses “The political situation” and the article “On the slogans”. Here Lenin also wrote his article "The Lessons of the Revolution" and began work on the book " State and Revolution ". In Razliv Lenin was by the representatives of the Central Committee of the RSDLP Alexander Vasilyevich Schotman , Grigol Ordzhonikidze , Vyacheslav Ivanovich Sof and Eino Rahja visited.

The children of Jemelyanov regularly brought Lenin by boat the current Petrograd newspapers they had bought. Lenin directed the work of the VI from Razliv. RSDLP party congress. Because of the oncoming cold and the danger of discovering the hiding place, the Central Committee of the SDLPR decided that Lenin should leave Razliv. Lenin left the tabernacle no later than August 6/18, 1917, drove to Petrograd and the next day on a locomotive to Finland . In 1927, a granite monument and memorial were erected on the place of the tabernacle where Lenin lived. As a result, Razliv became the destination of many visitors.

literature

• Yegor Jakowlew : From Razliv to Smolny . Dietz, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-320-00815-3 .

Coordinates: 60 ° 5 '  N , 29 ° 57'  E