Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment In Russia
(London: C. W. Daniel Company, 1925)
Chapter VI
PREPARING FOR AMERICAN DEPORTEES
EVENTS in Moscow, quickly following each other, were full of interest.
I wanted to remain in that vital city, but as I had left all my
effects in Petrograd I decided to return there and then come back
to Moscow to join Lunacharsky in his work. A few days before my
departure a young woman, an Anarchist, came to visit me. She was
from the Petrograd Museum of the Revolution and she called to
inquire whether I would take charge of the Museum branch work
in Moscow. She explained that the original idea of the Museum
was due to the famous old revolutionist Vera Nikolaievna Figner,
and that it had rece... (From: Anarchy Archives.)
