bolshevik

Appears to have been derived from this glass plate image - www.loc.gov/item/ggb2006006212/

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This photo is in the 'Album of Revolutionary Russia' www.marxists.org/history/ussr/art/photography/album/Rev-R... The caption says that W. Bakrylov was Commissar of the State Theatres.

Some information on him, identified as V. V. Bakrylov, in The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts Under Lunacharsky, October 1917-1921" "V. V. Bakrylov, (?-1922), employed by Lunacharsky in situations demanding show of force - the occupation of Ministry of Public Education in Nov. 1917; administration of Petrograd state theatres, Jan. 1918." Some details of those activities in Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre, By Laurence Senelick books.google.com/books?id=mx5lCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA25&lp...

"Numerous prominent cultural figures resorted to this most final of acts. Vladimir Bakrylov, the first commissar of the Imperial Petrograd Theaters committed suicide in June 1922. " Silence's roar: the life and drama of Nikolai Erdman, by John Freedman books.google.com/books?id=vP8KAQAAMAAJ&q=Bakrylov,+Co...

Thank you Art Siegel and B-59. We will add more information to the description.

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42118227

Caption at bottom: Members of the Central Executive [Committee] "Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (Russian: Я́ков Миха́йлович Свердло́в; IPA: [ˈjakəf mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ svʲɪrdˈlof]; known by pseudonyms "Andrei", "Mikhalych", "Max", "Smirnov", "Permyakov"; 3 June [O.S. 22 May] 1885 – 16 March 1919) was a Bolshevik party administrator and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Sverdlov

Probably misspelled and "Varlam Aleksandrovich Avanesov (Russian: Варлаам Александрович Аванесов; born Suren Karpovich Martirosyan, Russian: Сурен Карпович Мартиросян;[1] 1884 – March 16, 1930) was an Armenian Bolshevik and Soviet communist politician." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varlam_Avanesov

AKA "All Russian Central Executive Committee", of which Sverdlov was chairman and the two others were secretaries: books.google.com/books?id=uJsaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA275&l...

This photo is in the 'Album of Revolutionary Russia' www.marxists.org/history/ussr/art/photography/album/Rev-R... The caption says that they were Members of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets. Sverdloff was President, Smoliansky and Avanesov were secretaries.

Thanks Art Siegel and B-59 for finding the related image in the "Album of Revolutionary Russia." We will add more details when we update.