sufficient skill and renown that his portrait was used on a 1903 poster created to advertise the lithographic profession. He became a comparatively well-compensated print-maker, able to afford to rent a small apartment on the outskirts of the capital city on his own and to date and eventually marry a young woman from a prosperous family.

Early revolutionary activity (1903-1907)

Tomsky's life experiences made him a receptive target for illegal revolutionary literature, which he was first exposed to in 1903. He later recalled that

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