He made a revolution, because faster than many of his comrades, he realized what the consequences of anarchy would be. He became the arbiter of fate and died due to his own disorder.
The path to freedom is thorny. Overthrowing the dictatorship, people should remember that there are those who offer, together with absurd rules, to send law and order to the dustbin of history. Fighting such enthusiasts draws and turns yesterday's troublemakers into supporters of tyranny. The biography of our hero is proof of this.
Childhood
Ivan Kursky lived in Kiev and worked as an engineer. He married the landowner daughter Maria. In October 1874, she gave him a son, who was named Dmitry. In total, the couple had four children. Happiness did not last long - the head of the family suddenly died. The family had to move to the Poltava province, where the widow's relatives lived. Mother and kids were taken unfriendly there.
Dima sympathized with the grief of close people and dreamed of saving them from poverty. An educational institution where a boy could be accepted to study for a modest reward was a gymnasium in the provincial town of Priluki. After graduating from it, the teenager managed to enter the College of Paul Galan in Kiev, where he could prepare for the university. A smart guy finished for his success was awarded a gold medal at graduation. The excellent student asked instead of the award to give him the money, which he immediately sent to his mother.
College of Paul Galan in Kiev
Youth
A brilliant college graduate was educated at Moscow University. He received a diploma in jurisprudence in 1900. Together with knowledge on the subject, our hero received information about the resistance movement to the autocracy. Since childhood, knowing about the troubles of the poor, Kursky joined the revolutionaries. Teachers tried to hush up an unpleasant episode in the life of a talented student - in 1896 he was imprisoned for participating in street riots. This episode did not allow him to make a teaching career in Alma Mater.
A place for an unreliable youth was found in the Office of Railways. Working days did not prevent Dmitry Kursky from establishing his personal life - in 1901 he became the husband of Anna Roginsky. The following year, he changed jobs and began speaking in court. During the Russo-Japanese War, our hero was drafted into the army, but was soon demobilized due to injury. Returning to the throne, he continued his practice of law.
Revolution
In 1904, Dmitry joined the RSDLP. In the fall of next year, a strike began in Moscow, workers demanded economic and political freedoms. The authorities ignored the strikers, and an armed uprising began. The young Bolshevik took part in it. After the defeat, he was not arrested, so he continued the struggle underground, published illegal literature, and in 1907 joined the leadership of the Moscow division of the RSDLP. The case ended with arrest in 1909. It was not possible to send the troublemaker to jail for a long time.
Barricades on Presnya. Artist Ivan Vladimirov
With the outbreak of World War I, a Russian-Japanese veteran came under mobilization. In the rank of ensign, he participated in the Brusilovsky breakthrough. The soldiers trusted a politically competent comrade, because after the February Revolution they elected him to the committee of the Romanian Front. In November, he hastened from Odessa to Moscow to help his party members, who took power into their own hands.
The meeting of the Council of People's Commissars led by Lenin (1927). Artist Dmitry Kardovsky
The judgment between dream and reality
Dmitry Kursky, as a person with a legal education, was entrusted with the organization of the judicial system in a young country. The ideal of proletarian justice was supposed to surpass the option that existed under the tsar in exacting demands on the arguments of the prosecution, as well as fundamentally refuse to impose cruel sentences for criminals. The romanticism of the first years of Soviet power and the civil war led to rampant crime. Kursky had to tighten the screws. Since 1919, he became a member of the Revolutionary Military Council and often went to the front, where he watched a terrifying picture.
Commissar. Book illustration
Dmitry Kursky tried to solve the problem of anarchy in the country by giving the courts maximum rights and appointing the most authoritative people there. The plan worked - the criminals began to fear the law. However, great power corrupted many tribunal assessors. Later, folk art turned this frustrated dreamer into a bloodthirsty tyrant.
