Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko
| Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko Владимир Антонов-Овсеенко |
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| People's Commissar of Military Affairs of the Russian SFSR | |
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In office 8 November 1917 – November 1917 |
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| Preceded by | Aleksandr Verkhovsky (Russian Provisional Government) |
| Succeeded by | Nikolay Podvoisky |
| People's Secretary of Military Affairs | |
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In office 7 March 1918 – 18 April 1918 |
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| Preceded by | Yuriy Kotsiubynsky |
| Succeeded by | Post dissolved Fyodor Sergeyev (All-Ukrainian Central MilRevKom) |
| Procurator General of the Russian SFSR | |
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In office 25 May 1934 – 25 September 1936 |
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| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Andrey Vyshinsky |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Ryckov |
| People's Commissariat for Justice of the Russian SFSR | |
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In office 1937–1938 |
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| Personal details | |
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9 March 1883 Chernihiv, Chernigov Governorate |
| Died | 10 February 1938 (aged 54) Butyrka |
| Citizenship | Russia, Soviet |
| Political party | Menshevik (1903), Menshevik-Internationalist (1914), RSDLP(b) (1917) |
| Alma mater | Vladimir Military Institute, Nikolaevsk Combat Engineer Institute |
Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseyenko (Russian: Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко; Ukrainian: Володимир Антонов-Овсєєнко; 9 March 1883 – 10 February 1938), real surname Ovseyenko, party aliases the 'Bayonet' (Штык) and 'Nikita' (Ники́та), a literary pseudonym A. Gal (А. Га́льский), was a prominent Soviet Bolshevik leader and diplomat.
He was born in Chernigov into an officer's family. He was of Ukrainian ethnicity.
In 1903, Antonov-Ovseyenko joined the Menshevik party. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, he led an uprising in Novo-Alexandria in Poland and Sevastopol in the Crimea. He was subsequently arrested and sentenced to twenty years' exile in Siberia. He soon escaped and by 1910 had emigrated to Paris.
Soon after the outbreak of World War I, Antonov-Ovseyenko became a Bolshevik in protest at the conflict. In May 1917 he returned to Russia, taking part in the October stage of the Bolshevik seizure of power following the February Revolution. On 7 November (25 October according to Julian Calendar still used in Russia at the time) he led the Bolshevik assault to capture the Winter Palace, and arrested the ministers of the Russian Provisional Government (excluding Prime Minister Alexander Kerensky, who had fled prior to the attack). He was elected to the Military Committee of Sovnarkom and soon thereafter given a high position in the Red Army.
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