Alexei P. Skliarenko was born by 1870, in
Verniy which became
Alma-Ata. He was the son of a
physician. By the time he was 18 years old, his life took a revolutionary turn. In 1886, Skliarenko joined the
Narodnik movement. In 1887, he was arrested and imprisoned in
Kresty, a prison in
St. Petersburg. By September 1889, Skliarenko met
Vladimir I. Lenin and the then Vladimir I Ulyanov joined Skliarenko's discussion group. Together, these two men's thinking developed towards the validity of
Marxism. In 1893, Skliarenko joined a group of
Marxists. In 1894, he was again arrested and this time he was exiled to
Arkhangelsk province. By 1898, Alexei P. Skliarenko had joined the
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party or RSDLP. In 1898-1903, he did field work for the party first in
Tula and then in
Harbin. By 1903, his work for the party took him to
St. Petersburg. From 1905 to 1907, Skliarenko served on the Bureau of the RSDLP where he represented the Central Region of
Saratov and where he also worked on the
Samara committee of the RSDLP. In 1907, Skliarenko was both one of the 338 delegates to the
5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and was also once again arrested and on this occasion he was exiled to
Syktyvkar. In 1911, Skliarenko returned to St. Petersburg where he adopted the pen-name
Bosoi and where he would write items for the
Bolshevik newspapers
Zvezka and
Pravda as well as the journal
Prosveshchenie (
Enlightenment). In July 1916, Alexei P. Skliarenko died in
Saint Petersburg, Russia, never living to see Russia's
October Revolution. ==Sources==