A revolutionary marriage

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The Russian Socialist Revolutionary Lydia Petrovna Kotchetkova and the Swiss Anarchist Fritz Brupbacher were a medical couple ardently in love for many years, until the cultural differences and finally the outbreak World War I led them into the final separation. They both dreamed of a better world. In August 1907 they spent a few days on the Monte Verità among the group of the "Naturheiligenapostel" Oedenkoven, how Brupbacher called the founder of the movement.

 

Image 1 Karin HuserScientific adviser at the State’s Archives of the Canton of Zurich and a freelance historian. Her main subjects are the history of Russian-Swiss relations, Jewish and Labor history. Karin Huser is a project coordinator of "Russian House on Monte Verita"