Silwestr Yassevich Todrija
Silwestr Jassewitsch Todrija ( Russian Сильвестр Ясевич Тодрия ; Georgian სილიბისტრო თოდრია , Silibistro Todria ; * January 4 / January 16, 1880 in Ianeuli, Gurien ; † June 8, 1936 in Tbilisi ) was a participant in the revolutionary movement in Russia and a Soviet statesman.
Life
Todrija came from a farming family. In 1901 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (RSDLP). Between 1901 and 1915 he was responsible for setting up illegal printing works for the RSDLP in Baku and Batumi . He also worked for the banned Bolshevik press in Moscow , St. Petersburg , Vyborg and Tbilisi . In December 1905 he took part in the armed workers' uprising in Moscow. Todrija was repeatedly subjected to repression by the tsarist government.
In 1917 he became a member of the Tbilisi and Caucasian regional committees of the RSDLP. In 1920 he was a delegate of the Second World Congress of the Comintern . After the establishment of Soviet power in Georgia in February 1921, Todrija became chairman of the Tbilisi Revolutionary Committee. He served as People's Commissar for Social Security and Agriculture from 1921 to 1922 and as People's Commissar for Labor from 1927 to 1929. In 1929 he became Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR and the Transcaucasian SFSR . Todrija was also a member of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.
Todrija was one of Stalin's closest friends until the early 1920s . In autumn 1911 and February 1912 he hid Stalin, whom he already knew from Georgia, in his Petersburg apartment several times. Later he was one of Stalin's internal party opponents. Todrija died of lung cancer in 1936. His early death probably saved him from assassination during the Great Terror .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Miklós Kun: Stalin. An Unknown Portrait . CEU Press, Budapest / London / New York 2003, pp. 99f., 122f., 130 and 138.
Web links
- Entry: Тодрия, Сильвестр Ясевич . In: Большая советская энциклопедия . Third edition. Издательство "Советская энциклопедия", Moscow 1969–1978 (Russian).
- თოდრია, სილიბისტრო (სილია) ესეს ძე (1880 - 193 ...) (Georgian, with picture)
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| SURNAME | Todrija, Silwestr Yassewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Todrija, New Year's Eve Yassevich; Тодрия, Сильвестр Ясевич (Russian); თოდრია, სილიბისტრო (Georgian); Todria, Silibistro (Georgian, transcribed) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian Soviet revolutionary and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ianeuli, Guria |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1936 |
| Place of death | Tbilisi |