Antonov, Konstantin Vladimirovich

In Penza and the Far East (1900-1923)

Born on August 15, 1900 in the village of Butka, Perm province, in the family of an assistant forester. In 1910, his family moved to Penza . After 8 years, in 1918, he graduated from the 2nd Penza Gymnasium, works in the provincial newspaper Izvestia ^[1] . In 1919, he became the first chairman of the city committee of the RKSM ^[2] , the first editor of the newspaper “ Creators of the Future ” ^[3] , and also a delegate to the first All-Russian Congress of Communist Students ^[2] . The following year, he works as secretary of the Penza Provincial Committee of the RKSM and becomes a delegate to the III Congress of the RKSM ^{[4] [5]} . In 1921 he was a delegate to the First All-Russian Conference ^[6] and the Fourth Congress ^{[7] [8] of the} RKSM . At the provincial congress, the RCP (B.), In the singular, votes for the decist platform ^[9] . Since the end of the year begins to work underground in the Far East . In 1922 he was elected Chairman of the Bureau of the RKSM Primorye at the Third Congress of the Primorsky Komsomol ^[10] .

In Moscow (1923-1932)

In 1923 he was recalled to Moscow and until 1925 he worked as Head of the newspaper section of the Central Committee of the RKSM ) ^[11] . At this time, he votes for the resolution of the Trotskyists ^[9] . After graduating from the international faculty of Moscow State University in 1926, he becomes a graduate student at the RANION ^[8] , where he works until 1930. At that time, Antonov served as the prototype for Matveev ^[12] - one of the heroes of Victor Keen 's novel “Beyond” ^[13] . From 1930 - deputy head of the Legal Department of the NKID and at the same time, until the spring of 1930, in the department of international law, which, due to structural transformations of those years, was first the department of the 1st Moscow State University , then - the Moscow Law Institute and, finally, the Moscow Law Institute named after P I. Knocking ^[14] . Then - Chairman of the Department of Soviet Law at KUTV ^[15] . He prints articles in the journal “ Soviet State ” ^[16] , publishes a book ^[17] , and edits collections of documents ^{[18] [19] [20] [21]} .

Work in France and Belgium (1933-1937)

In 1933, Krestinsky was appointed to the post of First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in France , where he served as Consul General ^{[14] [22]} . Since 1935 he has been working as an adviser to the USSR embassy in Belgium ^[14] .

During the Great Terror (1937-1939) ^[23]

In April 1937 the facts of 1921-1924 about his voting for decists and Trotskyists were indicated in the questionnaire, which was why he was recalled to Moscow, where the party board harshly reprimanded him for concealing these facts. In May, Krestinsky was removed and arrested. Potemkin was appointed in his place, with whom Antonov worked in France in 1934. Potemkin appoints Antonov as an assistant to the head of the 2nd Western Department of the NKID . Since August - Acting Head of the 2nd Western Department of the USSR NKID ^[24] . In November, the writer Anton Kin , a friend of Antonov, was arrested, and the bureau of foreign cells initiates a new case. In January 1938 he testifies in the NKVD, after which he was removed from his post and transferred to the reserve. In March, he was appointed a consultant to the 3rd western department of the NKID , and his party business was transferred to the Dzerzhinsky district committee of the CPSU (b) in Moscow, where he worked until May, after which he was sent to the NKID institute . At the same time, he works concurrently at the Institute of Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . In April, Antonov’s article appeared in the journal “ Soviet State ” ^[25] . Six months later, his membership card was returned to him, but he was removed from his post at the NKID Institute and transferred to the reserve. He was finally dismissed from the NKID Institute in January 1939, but at the same time, already in April, he was approved by the Institute of Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR as a senior researcher ^[26] and assigned to his party organization. In May, she completes her (theoretical) part of the work on the preparation of a textbook on international law.

He was arrested on May 11 . The manuscript of the textbook has been confiscated.

Case No. 407 (1939-1940) ^[14]

During the preliminary investigation in 1939, under pressure ^{[27] he} writes a confession in espionage in favor of France and participation in the counter-revolutionary Trotskyist organization, into which, allegedly, he was recruited by Krestinsky . On January 16, 1940, Stalin signed one of his famous death lists . The ninth number on the page is the name of Antonov. (In the same place, the twelfth is Isak (as on the list) Babel ) ^[28] . On February 5, a trio of the USSR HCVF consisting of a divorceurist Alekseev , brigvoyuristov Klimin and Detistov and secretary, junior military lawyer Mazur A.S. decided: “to hear the case in closed court, without the participation of the prosecution and the defense and without calling witnesses.” And two days later the same troika he was sentenced to death with confiscation of property on charges of espionage and participation in a counter-revolutionary organization. At the hearing, he stated that “he does not plead guilty, but denies the testimony at the preliminary investigation, as he gave them as a result of the application of physical and moral pressure ^[29] ." He also pointed out that "his testimony, allegedly a recruiter - Krestinsky - is not even in the case." The next day, February 8, the assistant to the chief of the 1st special department of the NKVD of the USSR, senior lieutenant of state security Kalinin ^{[30] [31] [32]} signed a certificate ^[33] on the enforcement of the sentence. The burial place is Moscow , New Donskoy cemetery .

Rehabilitated HCVS of the USSR in 1956 ^{[34] [35]} . The protocol indicates that the assistant to the head of the investigative unit of the NKVD of the USSR, Volodzimirsky ^[36] , who led the investigation, was convicted of falsifying the cases, and the main investigator in the case, senior investigator of the investigative unit of the NKVD of the USSR, Matevosov, was dismissed ^[37] .

• Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences Vladimir Konstantinovich Antonov (1927-1992)
• Excellent student of public education Marianna Konstantinovna Antonova (1937)

• In 1968, letters from a close friend and subordinate on Komsomol work in the Far East, Victor Keen, to Konstantin Antonov were published ^[38] .
• In 1978, the street in Penza was named after Antonov ^[39]

• Antonov Konstantin Vladimirovich // RGASPI . F. M1. Op. 18. D. 186. L. 3–7. 7 l

• Lists, questionnaires and delegates of the 1st All-Russian Conference of the RKSM // RGASPI . F. M37. Op. 1. D. 6. L. 11–12.

• Lists, questionnaires and mandates of delegates of the 3rd All-Russian Congress of the RKSM // RGASPI . F. M6. Op. 3. D. 16. L. 5 revolution, 14 revolution, 54-55.

• Lists, questionnaires and credentials of delegates of the 4th All-Russian Congress of the RKSM // RGASPI . F. M6. Op. 4. D. 8. L. 52, 52 revolution.

• Investigation case No. 407 on charges of Antonov Konstantin Vladimirovich // Central Archive of the FSB of Russia . D. P4648. 262 l

• Antonov K.V. Some results of the conflict on the CERW // Soviet state and the revolution of law. : article. - Moscow : Publishing house Kom. Akad, 1930. - No. 2 . - S. 122-138 .
• Antonov K.V. Sunyatsenism and the Chinese Revolution. - M .: Publishing house Kom. Akad, 1931 .-- 135.1 s.
• Collections of documents on international politics and international law: Disarmament. / Ed. K.V. Antonova . - Moscow : Publishing. NKID, 1932. - Issue. 1 .
• Compendiums of documents on international politics and international law: European Union Agricultural conferences and regional agreements. / Ed. K.V. Antonova . - Moscow : Publishing. NKID, 1932. - Issue. 2 .
• Collections of documents on international politics and international law: Japan-China conflict. Hoover's plan and the reparation problem. The activities of the League of Nations and others / Ed. K.V. Antonova . - Moscow : Publishing. NKID, 1932. - Issue. 3 .
• Compendiums of documents on international politics and international law: Lausanne agreements. Geneva Convention on Disarmament. Recognition of Manzhou-GO et al. / Ed. K.V. Antonova . - Moscow : Publishing. NKID, 1933. - Issue. 4 .
• Antonov K.V. To the question of international law // Soviet State : article. - Moscow , 1938. - No. 4 . - S. 62-73 .

• Yurkov I. V. On the organization of the Communist Youth League in the Penza province in 1919 - in the early 1920s. // Proceedings of PSPU im. V. G. Belinsky .. - 2010. - No. 15 (19) . - S. 131-136 .
• Yurkov I.V. Komsomol functionaries in the history of the USSR of the 1920s (based on the materials of the Penza province) // Izvestiya PSPU im. V. G. Belinsky .. - 2011. - No. 23 . - S. 645-648 .
• Borodin. “The people we loved cannot be taken away ...” // Vladivostok: newspaper. Archived 2002-24-05.
• Savin O.M. The case is discontinued by production: historical and documentary essays .. - Penza, 1992. - S. 54-59.
• Merinov Yu.N. Far Eastern October // Serving the Fatherland: newspaper. - 2012. - No. of October . Archived on May 29, 2017.

• Victor Keane . On the other side . - Moscow : Young Guard , 1968 . - 336 p.
• Petrov N.V. , Skorkin K.V. Index // Who directed the NKVD. 1934–1941 / Ed. N.G. Okhotina and A. B. Roginsky. - Moscow, 1999.