Gavriil Ilyich Myasnikov - Bolshevik worker, one of the leaders of the Motovilikha Bolsheviks. Professional revolutionary since 1905. Active participant in the October Revolution and the Civil War. One of the main organizers of the kidnapping and murder of the Grand Duke, the last Russian Emperor Mikhail Romanov. Later he participated in the left opposition. In 1920-1922, he conducted opposition activities within the RCP (b), and was a member of the “workers’ opposition.” Lenin's polemic with Myasnikov is well known. On February 20, 1922, he was expelled from the Bolshevik Party. He was arrested twice, after which he received permission to leave for Germany. In the fall of 1923, he was convinced to return to the USSR. The arrest of the returning Myasnikov was personally led by Dzerzhinsky. Spent three and a half years in prison. Having escaped from Yerevan exile, jumping out of the Yerevan-Julfa train, the route of which ran along the state border, he swam across the Araks and fled to Iran. Foreign wanderings ended in 1930 in Paris. In January 1946, he returned to the USSR, according to one version, by force. By this time, all his sons had died at the front. The wife suffered a severe mental disorder. He was arrested right off the plane. After nine months of investigation, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR passed a verdict - execution. The wife, having learned about this, went crazy and soon died. Shot in 1946. “The genre of “Philosophy of Murder” is memoirs and reflections, otherwise, “the confession of a murderer.” Not a note drawn up for one reason or another (for example, at the request of Istpart or the Society of Political Prisoners), not some kind of descriptive report that only records (usually from memory) one’s (others’) actions in a specific event, but something larger, more personal. In “The Philosophy of Murder” the author sets and, to the extent possible (abilities), resolves a global task: to present the fullness of the arguments, motivating reasons, including purely psychological ones, that once led him, the author, to a certain decision, action, which together forced him to “do what he did." Myasnikov reconstructed the entire complex of his internal experiences, in other words, he relived the situation. This genre is extremely rare in memoirs. All the more interesting are the few surviving examples and especially those texts that were created with the expectation of publication.”