Strumilin Stanislav Gustavovich

Born into the impoverished noble family of Strumillo-Petrashkevich, descended from Marshal of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Stanislav Petrashkovich Stromila. In 1896 he graduated from the Skopinsky Real School and entered the Electrotechnical Institute in St. Petersburg.
Since 1897 he participated in the revolutionary movement, in 1899 he participated in the General Student Strike, in the same year he was expelled from the institute and joined the “Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class”, in 1899-1906 he was a member of the RSDLP. He was arrested three times (1901, 1903 and 1905). Escaped from exile. Delegate to the IV (Stockholm) (1906) and V (London) (1907) congresses of the RSDLP. In 1906-1920 he joined the Mensheviks. Since 1923, member of the RCP(b).