Friends!

Tomorrow Ukrainian film "My grandmother - Fanny Kaplan" will come to the wide screens. This film gathered great audiences at film festivals in Budapest, London and Odessa. Viewers really loved this story, and I'll tell you why.

Life story of Feige Hayimovny Roytblat-Kaplan is very confusing. From what we know for sure - she was born in Volyn province in a family of Jewish elementary school teacher. He called his daughter very romantic, in Hebrew her name means "violet". Likewise, under the star of love passed all Fanny’s life. In 1905 she met Viktor Harskiy in Odessa. She was only 15, the young man was a few years older, but the feelings were frantic. He, though, inspired her to join the ranks of the anarchists.

Lovers prepared an attempt on the Governor-General Sukhomlinov, they brought homemade explosives to the hotel "Merchant” in Kiev, where they lived under other names. Suddenly - it worked there. Because of this, Fanny was wounded and partially lost her vision. Meanwhile Harskyy fled. A woman was detained and sent to prison.

In captivity, she spent years. Suddenly February Revolution took place, amnesty was proclaimed. She and her lover managed to get free. They met again after 11 years, but the love passed. At this time, Fanny met the brother of Lenin - Dmitry Ulyanov. He helped to arrange her surgery to restore vision. What was the character of their relationship – is hard to understand, and film director Elena Demyanenko said that when they searched for some details: "We were able to find this information only in the investigative case of Fanny Kaplan, which until 1993 was classified as "Top secret". Interestingly, ten pages from there are torn. " Is not it strange?

Especially when you consider that the most Fanny Kaplan is known for its attack on Lenin, which was committed into the backyard after a rally of workers in August 1918. We don’t know now, if she had done it or not. But Kaplan paid the bitter price. Three days after the assassination, she was brought into the yard of Kremlin and shot. Then her body was stuffed into the barrel and set on fire.

Filmmaker calls her film an act of decommunisation. She taught us that life is extremely important thing, and we need to appreciate all the sufferings and victories. The state has no right to interfere in it.

Another fact about this film I also cannot remember - the day before completion of shooting the actor, who played Lenin - Alex Devotchenko was found dead. His death occurred in very unclear circumstances. Russian human rights activist Olga Kurnosova said that he was "removed" by the Russian special services. It is the saddest analogy.

Friends, I advise everyone to watch a movie "My grandmother - Fanny Kaplan," and to understand this story, because many people means many opinions, but all of them are important.