Background
Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky was born on October 3, 1863 Voronezh, Russian Federation. He spent his childhood in the village of Podrednede of Biryuchansky district of the Voronezh province.
historian literary critic publicist
Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky was born on October 3, 1863 Voronezh, Russian Federation. He spent his childhood in the village of Podrednede of Biryuchansky district of the Voronezh province.
In the autumn of 1873 Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky began to study in the Voronezh gymnasium. In 1879, for keeping revolutionary illegal literature, he was expelled from the gymnasium and, with the help of relatives of his mother who lived in Saint Petersburg, was assigned to the 7th Saint Petersburg gymnasium.
In 1881 he returned to Voronezh, continued his studies and in 1883 graduated from the Voronezh gymnasium. In the same year he entered the law faculty of Saint Petersburg University. In 1884 he joined the People's Union "Youth Union." In 1885, he was arrested and exiled to Voronezh. In 1887-1889, he was serving military service.
In 1904 Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky emigrated to Switzerland, was a member of the editors of the Bolshevik newspapers "Proletarian", "Forward". In 1905-1916 he lived in Saint Petersburg, Baku, Moscow, Saratov. An employee of the newspaper "Zvezda" and "Pravda" magazine "Enlightenment" (1911-1914).
After February 1917, he was one of the editors of the Social-Democrat newspaper, a member of the editorial board of the Pravda newspaper (1918-1920), the founder and editor of the Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya magazine, from 1918 a professor at the Communist Academy. Head of the Commission on the History of the October Revolution and the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1920-1924), chairman of the Society of Old Bolsheviks, from 1928 - member of the Institute's Directorate V.I. Lenin.
Olminsky was in amongst Lenin's closest confidants as early as 1904 and attended the meeting of 22 in July 1904 which agreed the letter To the party which paved the way for the Bolshevik-Menshevik split.
Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky was a cousin of Nikolai Vladimirovich Chekhov.