Lisevich

The future leader of the anarchists, Lisevich, was born and raised in a wealthy family of a provincial lawyer. His family was able to provide him with a good education and by the age of 15, Lisevich spoke English, German, and French and also had a good knowledge of fundamental sciences. Discipline, education, and excellent oratory skills helped him pass the exam at the cadet school in the Old Capital. However, due to a lack of vacancies, he was redirected to one of the regional military schools.

Lisevich was always one of the best students. He enjoyed and excelled in military training. In 1897, in order to receive a special scholarship from the governor, he broke into the governor's office and personally forged an order to enroll himself on the list of scholarship recipients. The deception was discovered, but the governor did not want to make the case public and ordered the officers of the military school to apply special punishment to Lisevich. He was given 50 blows with rods on the parade square near the school building.

Lisevich should have been expelled from the school, but his father intervened, bribing one of the officers. Lisevich remained enrolled in the school, but he was sent into exile to help organize food supplies for areas suffering from widespread famine.

Lisevich experienced a hard failure and exile. For several months, he was engaged in organizational work and dreamed of a speedy return and graduation from the school, with the possibility of military service afterward where he could show his abilities and redeem himself with a scholarship.

Lisevich was assigned as a trustee to one of the local councils, acting as a temporary assistant responsible for issuing cash loans to needy peasants for the purchase of grain. Initially, he carried out his task honestly, but he soon realized that he could make good money in this business. He began to take extra money from the peasants to expedite the loan consideration process. He also regularly forced beautiful peasant women to have sexual relations to help their families.

Lisevich's enterprise operated for several months until several desperate peasants complained to the police. An investigation began, and Lisevich was placed under house arrest while his case was being considered. Unfortunately for the complaining peasants, an outbreak of typhus occurred in the province, and they became infected with the disease. They were placed in a separate small hospital. Upon learning of this, Lisevich decided to take a desperate step to hide his crimes – he set fire to the chamber with the peasants in it at night. The trial was postponed due to the death of all the applicants.

Lisevich was released but ordered to remain in the county until further developments. The fire caught the attention of a special police unit, which began its investigation and quickly realized that it was arson. Lisevich was placed on the wanted list and had to flee.

He went to his father's home town. His father agreed to help him financially but asked Lisevich to leave and forget the way home.

Lisevich fled to Europe and made fake documents for himself. He made it to Paris, where in 1893 he was introduced to James Guillaume, one of the famous European anarchists. Through Guillaume, Lisevich became a member of several political organizations where the anarchist ideology was popular.

From 1898 to 1903, Lisevich participated in several terrorist acts against his political opponents and became a prominent representative of the radical wing of the anarchists. Many members of his movement were unhappy with Lisevich's aggressive attitude and tried to limit his influence. In 1903, this confrontation reached its climax, and his comrades-in-arms offered Lisevich to return to the Old Empire to continue spreading the ideas of anarchism in his homeland. The timing was perfect – a disgraced official from the New Capital arrived in Paris, who promised Lisevich to destroy his old case, which was stored in the police department's archives.

In December 1903, Lisevich and a new friend returned incognito to the New Capital, where they managed to steal Lisevich's case and destroy it. Lisevich drowned his new friend in the river to minimize the risk from a potential witness.

Lisevich's name was cleared, and he began to gently infiltrate the political circles of the New Capital. His charisma and the image of a mysterious stranger worked perfectly – in just two years, he went from an unknown visitor to a regular in the most fashionable universities and closed political circles, as well as a propagandist of the ideas of anarchism and a friend of the legendary ideologists of anarchism in Europe. Every year, the number of fans increased, and he decided to start a political career.

In 1907, Lisevich attempted to lead one of the anti-government strikes, which again attracted the attention of the police department. This time, influential friends and fans stood up for him. Lisevich sensed revolutionary sentiment among the poorest citizens of the country and began to gather people around him who were ready to take drastic measures to achieve their goals. This is how the first group of anarchist supporters was formed, who were not only ready for debate but also for armed struggle. Fortunately, Lisevich's past experience was easily passed on to his followers. Lisevich tried to be elected head of the city council, but failed. However, he was able to serve on the city council's advisory board and often used the venue for public speaking.

Lisevich used the new podium, and now fans of political debates in all the major cities of the Empire knew about him. He became one of the founders of the Freedom newspaper, in which he constantly wrote columns about the bright future of the Empire under anarchy.

Lisevich was intoxicated with glory and offended one of the members of the Imperial Supreme Council during his visit to the city government. For several days, Lisevich basked in the attention of his flock, but soon he was kidnapped. On the way out of the New Capital, Lisevich's battle group caught up with the kidnappers, but the forces were unequal – everyone was captured, shackled, and sent with bags over their heads in an unknown direction.

Lisevich and his group found themselves in a psychiatric hospital near Great Bor city. Here, Lisevich met Seraphim, with whom they revolted and ran away. Seraphim turned out to be an extremely useful ally – he was religious, mentally unstable, prone to aggression, and easily manipulated. In addition, a small group of like-minded cultists had already formed around Seraphim, who believed in a perverted theory about the end of the world and were ready to blindly follow his instructions. Having ensured the loyalty of Seraphim and his supporters, Lisevich headed towards the New Capital to take revenge.

Lisevich, an anarchist, tried to find out who had ordered his kidnapping. After weeks of searching, he found himself on the trail of several politicians and officials. He decided to act on the principle of "an eye for an eye"

From 1908 to 1912, Lisevich traveled around most of the country, personally involved in the creation of small political clubs in the large cities of the Empire. Now he was very careful and did not make sudden movements. But in each city, he always recruited several people in case there was a need to organize actions. In May 1912, his path again passed through Great Bor city, where he met Seraphim, who had increased the number of his followers and was living a quiet life in the middle of nowhere with his cult.

Lisevich remembered how useful Seraphim could be and agitated the cultists to join the anarchist movement. Seraphim was not interested in politics, but Lisevich found the key – he began to connect the ideas of anarchism with the religious doctrine of the cult. Seraphim liked this very much and agreed to cooperate closely. The cultists received combat training.

Lisevich and his group understood that they were nobody in the political arena and could not influence what was happening through existing state institutions. The anarchists decided to start preparing for sabotage throughout the Empire and used the network of their political clubs to collect information and further mobilize people. The year 1916 was chosen as the start of a large-scale sabotage campaign. According to Lisevich, four years should be enough to prepare and seize the initiative. Fundraising began, the purchase of weapons and explosives, as well as very careful recruitment of people.

In 1914, the Great War began, which gave the anarchists the long-awaited moment they had been waiting for. The anarchists began aggressive raids for money and weapons and also began to actively recruit supporters among disgruntled merchants and peasants. This activity quickly drew the attention of the state police, who tried to counteract, but resources were increasingly drained by the war and the activities of other active political groups. Therefore, the defeat of the anarchists and cultists was not happening.

By 1916, the anarchists had been able to raise significant funds for the struggle without attracting too much attention. The situation at the front and in the state became so unstable that by the end of the year, they even managed to quietly seize power in the city of Shpasberg, which from now on became their base.

Lisevich did not yet know exactly how he could seize more power, but he felt that his time would soon come. His confidence was spurred on by the massacre in quiet alleys. The countless number of disaffected peasants and deserters was an excellent source of manpower and funds, the population was easily agitated, and the police and army had more pressing problems than catching a small group of anarchists who had taken refuge in Shpasberg. Moreover, Lisevich was still very careful and tried to carry out all operations with minimal attention.

The situation in the country continued to escalate, and Lisevich's representatives were sent to different cities with orders to wait for the moment when they could begin to mobilize sleeping cells and send people for the benefit of anarchy and Lisevich's interests. Some of his subordinates began to react too early and arranged actions unsuccessfully – as happened on the edge of the Empire in the town of Port David.

In November, something happened that Lisevich had been waiting for so long – a revolution and the almost complete collapse of the central government. He couldn't believe his luck. He received a messenger from the cultists of Seraphim with a request for help in capturing the city of Great Bor, where Lisevich and the head of the sectarians were in a psychiatric hospital. Anarchist groups provided support, and now he had two cities under his control.

It was necessary to act quickly, and Lisevich decided on a very risky operation – an attempt to capture Old Moscow, where revolutionary forces from the New Capital were already beginning to arrive to establish the new government.

Lisevich arrived in the Old Capital and discovered the city, which was waiting for what would happen next. There was no street fighting or chaos, but all the prerequisites for this had been created. The anarchists provoked several skirmishes between law enforcement officers and war refugees. Further, they organized sabotage in the headquarters of the representatives of the revolution. This was enough to start the fights of everyone with everyone. Anarchy reigned in the streets. During one of the operations, Lisevich was shell-shocked, but he was pulled out from under fire by a young guy named Oleg, who had just arrived in the city and was looking for Lisevich, hoping to join his movement.