Nikolai Grigoryevich Markin
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Nikolai Grigoryevich Markin ( Russian Николай Григорьевич Маркин ; born May 9, jul. / 21st May 1893 greg. In the village Russki Syromjas today Markino, district Gorodishche , Penza province ; † 1. October 1918 near the village Pjany boron on the Kama ) was a participant in the October Revolution and Civil War . The henchman Trotsky came as Commissioner of the Red Fleet on a gunboat of the Volga - Flotilla in the fight against the whites around.
Life
Nikolai Markin grew up among farmers in his home village . In 1910, when the revolutionary was working in a stationery store, he was jailed for eight months. In 1914 Nikolai Markin was called up for military service. In Kronstadt he was trained as a non-commissioned officer in the Baltic fleet in dealing with sea mines . In 1916 he joined the RSDLP .
Nikolai Markin took part in the February Revolution . As a member of the Bolshevik Kronstadt Committee, he was delegated to the Petrograd Soviet . Since April 1917, he was one of the bodyguards of Lenin . In the early summer of 1917 he became a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee . After the October Revolution , together with Iwan Salkind , he organized the decoding and publication of the secret diplomatic treaties confiscated by the revolutionaries in the archives of the Foreign Ministry.
Nikolai Markin was sent to Nizhny Novgorod in June 1918 and formed the Volga flotilla there. In September 1918, during the Battle of Kazan , he was involved in the Red Army landing commissioner against the White Army .
Trotsky
In Chapter 24 of his memoirs - In Petrograd - Trotsky sets a monument to Markin. His exuberant hymn of praise appears to be meant honestly. Trotsky must speak about Markin, because it was through this fighter that "the October Revolution triumphed". In 1929 Trotsky recounts from the years 1917/1918: “Markin was a sailor in the Baltic Fleet, an artilleryman and a Bolshevik. He hadn't revealed himself straight away. Pushing forward was not in his character. Markin was not a speaker, it was difficult for him to speak. He was also shy and withdrawn - it was the withdrawn strength of the inward-looking force. Markin was made of one piece, made of real material. I had no idea of his existence when he had already taken care of my family. He made the acquaintance of my boys, entertained them with tea and sandwiches in the canteen at Smolny , and generally gave them little pleasures in which those hard times were so poor. He quietly came to inquire whether everything was okay. From the boys ... he learned that we were living in an enemy camp. Markin paid a visit to the porter and house committee, it appears, not alone but with a group of sailors. He probably found very convincing words because everything around us suddenly changed. In our bourgeois house the dictatorship of the proletariat had been established before the October Revolution. Only later did we learn that our children's friend, the sailor in the Baltic Fleet, Markin, had done all of this ... Then the civil war began. Markin plugged the holes, there were plenty of them. Now he established the dictatorship of the proletariat far in the east. Markin commanded a flotilla on the Volga and drove the enemy before him. When I found out that Markin was in a dangerous place, my heart became calmer and warmer. But the hour struck. On the Kama an enemy bullet overtook Nikolai Georgjewitsch Markin and knocked over the firm seaman's legs. "
Honors
- 1919: A motor ship built by the Volga shipping company in 1912 is renamed Pamjat Markina (in memory of Markin).
- 1960: Nikolai Markin's birthplace Russki Syromjas is renamed Markino .
- There is Markin Street in Astrakhan , Kazan and St. Petersburg.
- There is a Markin monument in Vyborg .
literature
- Leon Trotsky : My life . Attempt an autobiography. Translated from the Russian by Alexandra Ramm . 543 pages. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1990 (Licensor: S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main). ISBN 3-320-01574-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian Markino
- ↑ Russian Красный Бор (Агрызский район)
- ↑ Russian Ваня-коммунист (канонерская лодка)
- ↑ Russian Волжская военная флотилия
- ↑ Russian Минный офицерский класс
- ^ Trotsky, pp. 260-269
- ↑ Russian Память Маркина
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Markin, Nikolai Grigoryevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Маркин, Николай Григорьевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian revolutionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Markino, Penza Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1918 |
| Place of death | on the Kama near Pyany Bor village |