Anna Dodonova

Anna Andreevna Dodonova (1888–1967) was a Bolshevik activist and intellectual.

She participated in the Bolshevik Revolution as a member of the Moscow Military Revolutionary Committee.

She was a member of the governing Presidium of Proletkult from its establishment in 1918 until disbandment in 1932.

[1] She was married to Valerian Pletnev and helped him implement Lenin's plan to subordinate Proletkult as being entirely subordinate to the People's Commissariat for Education (Narkompros), which would in turn be subordinate to the Communist Party.

[2] Dodonova died in 1967 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Praesidium of the national Proletkult organisation elected at the first national conference, September 1918. Sitting from left to right: Fedor Kalinin , Vladimir Faidysh, Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii , Aleksei Samobytnik-Mashirov I. I. Nikitin, Vasili Ignatov Standing from left to right: Stefan Krivtsov, Kārlis Ozols-Priednieks , Anna Dodonova, N. M. Vasilevskii, Vladimir Kirillov