In the Ural city of Beloretsk, a memorial plaque is installed on the building of the House of Pioneers.: "Pavel Varfolomeyevich Tochissky, the first organizer of the Beloretsk Bolsheviks, lived in this house in 1917-1918. On the night of July 17-18, 1918, com. Tochissky was killed by an enemy bullet fired by the White Guard Social Revolutionaries. " 1Tochissky's active revolutionary activity began as early as 1885 in St. Petersburg, where he organized an illegal workers ' circle, which later formed one of the first social-democratic organizations in Russia - the Association of St. Petersburg Craftsmen. 100 years have passed since then. For many years, almost nothing was known about the organization of Tochissky, and here's why. At the end of 1888, the police defeated the central group of the "Partnership". But there was no public trial, the case was decided by administrative procedure, and the materials were deposited only in the archives of the Police Department, and in 1910 the main part of them was destroyed. However, in 1889 in Geneva, information flashed through the illegal press that in 1888 workers P. V. Tochissky, D. V. Lazarev and E. I. Danilov were arrested in St. Petersburg .2 Such reports (tsarism did not skimp on arrests) appeared quite a few times in the pages of the progressive press. But for a long time there was not a word about this "Partnership" in the works on the history of Russian social democracy. The turning point was 1923, when N. L. Sergievsky found in the Police Department's collection a report to the Minister of Internal Affairs, which contained information about the organization of Tochissky. We managed to track down one of its participants, Andrey Heinrich Breitfus. Sergievsky went to him. Breitfus shared his memories. They were recorded and then published together with the text of the report to the Minister of Internal Affairs. 3 A year earlier, a member of the International Women's Secretariat of the Executive Committee of the Cominte ... Read more