The role of G.I. Okulova, a participant in the Russian Civil War, in the creation of the school of agitators and instructors of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee

Abstract

The article, based on the documents from the personal fund of the State Archives of the Russian Federation, examines the major milestones in the biography of Glafira Ivanovna Okulova (Teodorovich).

She graduated from the Teacher Training Courses at the Society of Pupils and Teachers in Moscow. From the age of eighteen, she took an active part in the Russian revolutionary movement, she was repeatedly arrested and exiled. She has been a member of the Communist party since 1899, an agent of the illegal newspaper Iskra. She conducted campaigning and party work in Kiev, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Samara, St. Petersburg, and Moscow.

In 1903–1922 she was married I.A. Teodorovich, a revolutionary and party leader; she gave birth to two children.

After October 1917, he was a member of the VTSIK and its Presidium. She took part in the creation of the school of agitators and instructors of the AllRussian Central Executive Committee.

During the Civil War, he was the head of the Рolitical department of the Eastern front and a member of the RVS of the 1st, 8th and Reserve armies. Since 1921, he had been doing party and scientific-pedagogical work.

During the Great Patriotic War, she was the head of a boarding school for children evacuated to the Urals. After the war, she worked as a senior researcher at the Museum of the Revolution of the USSR. In 1956, she was awarded the order of Lenin.