Vladimir Fritsche

15 October] 1870 – 4 September 1929) was a Russian and Soviet Marxist literary and art scholar, critic and academic.

He was the initiator of the creation, and then a member, of the Circle of Lovers of Western European Literature alongside Pyotr Kogan and Konstantin Balmont.

He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905 and from 1905 to 1907 he was a member of the literary and lecture group of the RSDLP.

[2] Fritsche was director of the Literary Department of the Institute of Red Professors, and section of literature at the Communist Academy.

In 1929 after the Soviet state decided to take control over the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, Fritsche was chosen as a candidate alongside Nikolai Lukin and Abram Deborin to become Academicians of the Academy of Sciences.