Wassili Wassiljewitsch Starkow

Members of the “Combat League for the Liberation of the Working Class” in Saint Petersburg (1897), Starkow (seated, far left).

Vassily Starkov ( Russian Василий Васильевич Старков ; born November 13 ^{. Jul} / 25. November  1869 ^greg. Kamen Well Sarma, today Rajon Yershov , Saratov Oblast ; † 26. April 1925 in Berlin ) was a Russian Social Democrat and active participant in the revolutionary movement in Russia .

Life

Starkow, son of an employee, studied from 1889 to 184 at the St. Petersburg Technological Institute. In 1890 he joined a Marxist student group. He belonged to the group around Stepan Ivanovich Radtschenko (1869-1911), to which Vladimir Ilyich Lenin joined in 1893 when he came to Petersburg for the first time. Starkow was one of the founders of the Petersburg Kampfbund in 1895 for the liberation of the working class and became a member of the central group of the Kampfbund. He was arrested on December 9, 1895, spent sixteen months in Shpalernaya Prison in Petersburg, and in 1897 was exiled to Minusinsk Raion . From 1900 he worked in Krasnoyarsk , Omsk , Kirschatsch and Bryansk . He was arrested a second time in Bryansk and then imprisoned in a Petersburg prison. In 1904 he went to Baku , where he took over the management of a power station. Between 1907 and 1910 he withdrew from active party work, but kept in contact with the Bolsheviks . From 1907 he was deputy head of the Moscow tram and in 1917 was appointed director of a power station in Moscow. From 1920 he worked for the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade and in 1921 he was appointed deputy commercial representative of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union in Germany . He died of heart failure in Berlin in 1925.

literature

• Дмитрий Гаврилович Куцентов: Деятели петербургского «Союза борьбы за освобождение рабочего класса». Краткие биографические очерки . Гос. изд-во полит. лит-ры, Москва 1962, p. 134 ff. (Russian).
• Article Wassili Wassiljewitsch Starkow in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D105860~2a%3D~2b%3DWassili%20Wassiljewitsch%20Starkow
• Г. А. Малинин: Памятники и памятные места Саратовской области . Приволжское книжное изд-во, Саратов 1971, p. 147f. (Russian).
• Richard Pipes: Social democracy and the St. Petersburg labor movement, 1885–97 . 2nd Edition. Charles Schlacks Jr Publisher, Irvine / Ca. 1985, p. 97 and passim (English).
• А. Г. Чулков, П. Г. Кутырев, С. В. Сидякин: Василий Старков . Приволжское книжное изд-во, Саратов 1989 (Russian).
• James K. Libbey: Starkov, Vasil Vasil'evich . In: A. Thomas Lane (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders . Volume 2 [M-Z]. Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Conn. / London 1995, ISBN 0313264562 , pp. 923f. (English).