By Loren R. Graham
Stalin ordered his execution, yet right here Peter Palchinsky has the final word. Palchinsky tells of Soviet expertise and undefined, the errors he condemned in his lifetime, the corruption and cave in he expected, the last word cost paid for silencing those that weren't afraid to talk out. the tale of this visionary engineer’s lifestyles and paintings, as Graham tells it, can also be the tale of the Soviet Union’s commercial promise and failure.
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He was elected starosta, or leader, of a group of prisoners who lived in close proximity in the fortress cells (Kishkin, Tereshchenko, Rutenberg, Avksent'ev, Sorokin, and Shmelev). On October 28, 1917, he wrote Nina Aleksandrovna: "Be calm and do not worry. As you know, the worse things get the calmer and better I feel . . " He included in his letter a drawing of his cell, no. 43 in the Alekseevskii ravelin, a detached fortification with two embankments jutting out from the bastion. Ten days later he wrote his wife that the jailers were permitting them to read some newspapers, especially the Bolshevik party paper Pravda.
Portrait of a Marriage Peter Palchinsky's wife Nina was almost as active as her husband, matching his interest in industry and trade with her own in workers' education and the status of women. Before leaving Russia she taught in special schools for workers in St. Petersburg, Irkutsk, and the Don Basin, where she not only helped her pupils achieve literacy but taught them political doctrines of reform and change. In England, France, and Belgium she studied the women's struggle for voting rights and higher education; she wrote articles about these movements for a feminist journal in St.
A spiritual closeness and friendship, a living comradeship; physical relations would be restrained in frequency, and only for reproduction. Such relations would not be elevated to a means of pleasure, but, on the contrary, they would be something to be ashamed of and would be looked upon as something that denigrates human beings. , only with one other person, and would not be permitted with others. How pure it would be to live in such a world! Although the ideal of a Platonic, loving relationship between husband and wife and their abstinence from sex with others appealed to Nina on an abstract level, she recognized that she and Peter were far from achieving such a goal.