Evseev, Dmitry Gavrilovich

Early years. Link

Dmitry Evseev was born on November 8, 1892 in Penza in the family of a laborer ^[1] . He received primary education : he studied for 5 years in a two-year rural school . After graduating from it, Dmitry studied for 8 months at work courses, which he also successfully completed. A student of an engraving workshop , received the specialty of a metal engraver ^[2] .

Since 1907, Evseev lived in Penza , where he worked as a mechanic at the Penza-1 railway station (1907-1910). In 1910-1913 he was a locksmith at the mechanical plants of Vorontsov and Krakka, and from 1913 ^[1] (or from 1915 ^[2] ) he became secretary of the Union of Bakers and Woodworkers ^[3] Penza ( trade union of woodworkers, metalworkers and bakers) ^{[4 ]} .

Dmitry Evseev joined the RSDLP in 1910 and joined the Bolsheviks . He was arrested in May 1915 and, after 6 months of imprisonment, was exiled by decision of the tsar’s court for three years to Eastern Siberia , where he remained until 1917 ^[1] .

After 1917. All-Russian Central Executive Committee and Cheka

After the February Revolution, Evseev arrived in Petrograd and was soon sent to the Party Central Committee in Ivanovo-Voznesensk , where he became the vowel of the local city council and the chairman of the revision committee of the textile workers union. He was nominated as a candidate member of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly , but was not elected ^[1] .

In the summer of 1917, Dmitry Gavrilovich was a member of the Ivanovo Provincial Committee (SC) of the RSDLP (b) , a member of the Ivanovo District Committee of the RSDLP (b) and a member of the Military Organization of the Ivanovo Civil Code. In the same year he became the head of the Red Guard in the city of Ivanovo and was elected a member of the Presidium of the Provincial Executive Committee ^[2] .

During the days of the October armed uprising, Evseev was a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee , where he headed the food department ^[4] . He was also elected a delegate from the Vladimir province of the II All-Russian Congress of Soviets , at which he became a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee ^[5] . He again became a delegate to the Third All-Russian Congress of Soviets (candidate for the All-Russian Central Executive Committee) and the Fourth Congress (member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee) ^[1] .

Dmitry Evseev participated in the battles against the troops of Kerensky-Krasnov near Pulkovo , and then in the suppression of the armed action of the junkers in Petrograd ^[6] .

From December 7 (20), 1917 to September 1918, Evseev was a member of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (VChK), to which he was appointed by a decision of the Council of People 's Commissars . In the Cheka, Evseev served as the head of the detachment on the Northern Front (1918), a member of the operational board (since March 9, 1918), the head of the Prison Department (since March 1918), and the head of the Department for Combating Crimes by job (in April 1918), Head of the Instruction Department (from June to August 1918) and head of the Registration and Reference Department (from August to September 1918) ^[2] . He participated in the defeat of sabotage centers, in the elimination of criminal gangs and conducted investigations into cases of anti-Soviet organizations involved in sending officers to the Don to form the White Guard Volunteer Army ^[1] .

After the Cheka moved to Moscow, Evseev participated in the disarmament of anarchist groups . On May 15, 1918, after the case of A. A. and V. A. Skull-Spiridovich , “convicted of espionage, Black-Hundred agitation and speculation with interest-bearing securities, ” Dmitry Evseev, together with Felix Dzerzhinsky and Grigory Sachs , became a member of the Standing Committee “for the exact the establishment of the guilt of the detained major criminals and bandits with the granting of the right to the aforementioned Special Commission in case of confirmation of their guilt immediately to be executed ” ^[7] .

After the suppression of the Yaroslavl rebellion at the end of July 1918, he was sent from Moscow by the head of the special investigative commission to Yaroslavl, the organizer of the red terror in the city ("The special investigative commission identified the organizers and activists of the rebellion who suffered deserved punishment" ^[8] ).

He traveled to the Northern , Southern and Eastern Fronts to assist local authorities in the fight against opponents of the Bolsheviks ^[1] .

According to Evseev’s report, the Cheka convened the 1st All-Russian Conference of Extraordinary Commissions (1918), at which Evseev proposed to study the experience of the activities of pre-revolutionary intelligence services and use their methods. At the suggestion of Evseev, the first steps were taken to create military counterintelligence in the Cheka. He also initiated the formation of the corps of the Cheka (1918) ^[1] .

If we do not have hidden ears and eyes in aristocratic salons, embassies, missions, and the like, then we will not know all the evil chains that are forged in silence by the enemies of the Soviet regime for us.

- from a speech by D. G. Evseev at the 1st All-Russian Conference of Extraordinary Commissions, June 14, 1918

Military career. Combrig

From September 1918 to January 1919, Dmitry Evseev studied at the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army . In 1919, he became the chief of staff of the 1st Brigade of the 56th Rifle Division , the chief of staff of the Special Brigade and the chief of staff of the Southern Detachment . He studied at the Academy again from 1919 to July 1920 ^[2] .

After that, Evseev was appointed for special assignments under the chief of staff of the Reserve Army of the Republic and assistant chief of staff of the same army (from August 1 to October 21, 1920). He once again studied at the Academy of the Red Army from October 1920 to January 1922 and, in the end, graduated from it ^[2] .

From January 1922 to 1923, Yevseyev served as chief of elite troops — Special Purpose Units (CHON) —Moscow Province, and then - the commander of the Special Forces Aviation Administration (1922-1924). Since February 1924, exactly one year, he was the managing director of the Central Procurement Administration of the Red Army ^{[1] [2]} .

Work in Germany. Evacuation and death

From February to December 1925, Dmitry Evseev was a member of the board of the Kovrov Cotton Trust, and then - in a similar position at the West-East European Commodity Exchange Joint-Stock Company Vostvage (1925-1927). Since 1927, he was in charge of the antique department of the USSR trade mission in Germany ^[2] .

In the reserve of the Red Army. In 04.1931 appointed by the Order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR Chief of Staff of the 13th building page. The order was canceled at 11.31, left in the reserve of the Red Army.

In 1941, Evseev was seriously ill ^[9] and after the start of World War II , in October, he was evacuated to Tashkent . February 13, 1942 Dmitry Gavrilovich Evseev died in the capital of the Uzbek SSR ^[1] .

• D. G. Evseev published a number of articles in the legal Bolshevik journal “Insurance Issues” ^[1] .

Wives ^[10] :

• Olga Vsevolodovna - German, noblewoman.
• Anna Ivanovna - secretary in the Cheka division.

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• TSA FSB of Russia. F. 1. Op. D. 1. L. 1 . Copy. Typescript.
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• TSA FSB of Russia. F. 1. Op. 1. D. 2. L. 30 . Script. Typescript.
• TSA FSB of Russia. F. 1. Op. 2. D. 2. L. 116 . Copy. Typescript.