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Larissa Reissner

1895 - 1926

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Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Larissa Reissner is the 2,767th most popular writer, the 615th most popular biography from Poland and the 62nd most popular Polish Writer.

Larissa Reissner (also spelled Larisa Reisner) was a Russian revolutionary, Bolshevik commissar, journalist, and writer most famously known for her daring leadership and combat roles during the Russian Civil War, including serving as a political commissar on the Volga Flotilla, conducting espionage behind enemy lines (notably disguising herself to scout in Kazan), and fighting in key battles like the defense of Svyazhsk—earning praise from Leon Trotsky as a "Pallas of the revolution" who "flashed across the revolutionary sky like a burning meteor" with Olympian beauty, ironical mind, and warrior courage. She became one of the era's most brilliant and popular writers, producing vivid frontline sketches collected in works like The Front (read by millions in mass Soviet editions) and later diplomatic reportage from Afghanistan, Germany (e.g., Hamburg at the Barricades), and elsewhere, symbolizing the "new woman" of the Revolution and inspiring Boris Pasternak's Lara in Doctor Zhivago. Surprisingly, despite surviving intense frontline dangers unscathed—including arrests and battles—she died at age 30 from typhus in peaceful Moscow in 1926, cutting short a meteoric career that blended heroism, intellect, and literary genius.

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Among writers, Larissa Reissner ranks 2,767 out of 7,302. Before her are Gustave Kahn, Leonard Woolf, Unica Zürn, Robert James Waller, Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, and Giacomo da Lentini. After her are Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Neil Postman, Alexandra Ripley, Heinrich Hoffmann, Jonas Jonasson, and Fleur Jaeggy.

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Among people born in 1895, Larissa Reissner ranks 134. Before her are Jakov Gotovac, Lucian Blaga, Vsevolod Merkulov, Xu Beihong, William Petersson, and Walter Gieseking. After her are Fulton J. Sheen, Gustav Klutsis, Laurens Hammond, Walter Jackson Freeman II, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, and Susanne Langer. Among people deceased in 1926, Larissa Reissner ranks 57. Before her are Krste Misirkov, Annie Oakley, Bertha Wegmann, Ye Wanyong, Katō Takaaki, and Enrico Toselli. After her are Lars Magnus Ericsson, Luther Burbank, William Larned, Joan Alcover, Carlos Schwabe, and Josias von Heeringen.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Larissa Reissner ranks 615 out of NaN. Before her are Mieczysław Rakowski (1926), Michael O. Rabin (1931), Władysław Czartoryski (1828), Krzysztof Wielicki (1950), Szymon Winawer (1838), and Max Factor (1877). After her are Maryla Rodowicz (1945), Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania (1454), Kazimierz Nycz (1950), Aleksander Zawadzki (1899), Isaac Deutscher (1907), and Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1549).

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Among Writers In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Larissa Reissner ranks 62. Before her are George Adamski (1891), Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (1925), Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909), Ignacy Krasicki (1735), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), and Sholem Asch (1880). After her are Isaac Deutscher (1907), Adam Michnik (1946), Alexander Imich (1903), Aleksander Fredro (1793), Zofia Posmysz (1923), and Stefanie Zweig (1932).

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