The protagonist of the film, Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, had several nicknames—or “handles,” as we might call them today. Krupskaya called him the “Frivolous Destroyer,” his comrades dubbed him “Vasilyevich the Blessed,” and he himself compared his life to that of Don Quixote. So what was the first People’s Commissar of Education really like?