Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov

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Fyodor Raskolnikov

Fyodor Raskolnikov ( Russian Фёдор Фёдорович Раскольников ; actually FF Ilyin * January 28 jul. / 9. February  1892 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 12. September 1939 in Nice , France) was a Soviet KP -Funktionär, fleet commander and diplomat .

Raskolnikov joined the Bolsheviks in 1910 ; in July Days in 1917 he was a leader of the Kronstadt sailors. In the summer of 1918 he was in command of the red Volga flotilla, which played an important role in the storming of the city of Kazan. (→ Kazan Operation ) In 1919, during the civil war, he commanded the Caspian Flotilla in the Caspian Sea. In the 1920s he was close to the opposition to Stalinism for a short time , later he took on ambassadorial posts in Estonia and Denmark and from 1934 in Bulgaria. In 1938 he was recalled from Bulgaria but refused to return to the USSR. He died in Nice in 1939 after publishing an open letter to Stalin . It is believed that he was murdered by NKVD agents. He was posthumously rehabilitated on July 10, 1963.

Raskolnikow was married to Larissa Reissner in his first marriage from 1918, and his second marriage to the actress Musa Kaniwes .

His brother Alexander Ilyin was a well-known chess player.

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