Maria Andreyeva (actress)

Her father, Fyodor Alexandrovich Fyodorov-Yurkovsky (Фёдор Александрович Фёдоров-Юрковский, 1842–1915) was the director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, and her mother was an actress.

Andreyeva took an interest in Marxist literature and she secretly joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

[1] While in Capri, Gorky was involved in the Vpered group but Andreyeva fell out with Anna Aleksandrovna Lunacharskaya, wife of Anatoly Lunacharsky and sister of Alexander Bogdanov.

In January that year, Anatoly Lunacharsky nominated her as his deputy in his role of head of art section of the Narkompros in Petrograd.

The Petrograd Soviet refused to confirm her nomination, but Vladimir Lenin intervened in her favor and the appointment went ahead.