Dmitry Fedorovich Sverchkov (1882-1938) - figure of the Russian Social Democratic movement, playwright, prose writer and screenwriter.
| Dmitry Fedorovich Sverchkov | |
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| Date of Birth | 1882 |
| Place of Birth | Taly , Bogucharsky Uyezd , Voronezh Province , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | April 21, 1938 |
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire β  the USSR |
| Profession | playwright , novelist , screenwriter |
| Career | 1925-1930 |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Works of D. F. Sverchkov
- 2.1 Memoirs βAt the dawn of the revolutionβ
- 2.2 Other works
- 3 Literature
- 4 notes
Biography
Born in the settlement of Tala, Voronezh province in the family of an officer of noble origin .
In 1899 he joined the St. Petersburg Union of the struggle for the liberation of the working class .
After the Second Congress, the RSDLP joined the Bolsheviks . During the revolution of 1905-1907, he was a deputy of the Petrograd Soviet , then a member of its Executive Committee and the Presidium. Due to disagreements with the Bolsheviks, he joined the Mensheviks .
Arrested on December 3, 1905. Among the 14 convicts, including L. D. Trotsky , was exiled to Siberia, deprived of the nobility. He escaped from exile in 1907.
In 1908-1909 he worked in the Central Bureau of Foreign Groups of the RSDLP, co-opted into the Central Committee of the party. Since 1910 - at illegal work in Moscow, where he was again arrested. Convicted to hard labor. Restored by the Provisional Government in 1917.
In 1920 he joined the RCP (b), worked in senior positions.
During the mass repression, he was arrested on August 11, 1937. Convicted by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on charges of participation in the counter-revolutionary terrorist organization of the right, shot on April 21, 1938. Rehabilitated July 7, 1956, the definition of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR [1] .
Works of D.F. Sverchkov
The Dawn of the Revolution Memoirs
In the early 1920s, he began work on the book of memoirs, βAt the Dawn of the Revolution.β From 1922 to 1925, several editions were published [2] . A feature of the book was flattering references to L. D. Trotsky, who considered Sverchkov his personal friend.
The personal correspondence of Trotsky and Sverchkov [3] is stored in the RGASPI [3] , partially it is published [4] .
Other works
- Sverchkov D.F. Three meteors: G. Gapon - G. Nosar - A. Kerensky . - L .: Surf, 1926.
Literature
- Pate AK Workers and Unity. A study of Social Democracey, St. Petersburg Metalworkers, and the Labor Movement in Late Imperial Russia, 1907-1914. - Bloomington: Slavica, 2015.
Notes
- β Martyrology of the executed in Moscow and the Moscow region .
- β Sverchkov D.F. At the dawn of the revolution. - M. , L. , 1922.
- β RGASPI. F. 325. Op. 1-2.
- β From a small Bohemian city: a letter to L. D. Trotsky to D. F. Sverchkov. // Historical archive. - 2002. - No. 3 . - S. 210-216 .