Medvedev, Alexander Semenovich (SR)

Alexander Semenovich Medvedev had an origin from the Cossacks of the Region of the Don Cossacks. He received education first in the Astrakhan Theological Seminary, and then in the Irkutsk Theological Seminary, from which he graduated. In the years 1901-1905 served as a teacher in the Udsky district and the Amur region. Since 1905, he participated in the revolutionary movement, and in 1907 he joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party . In 1911-1917 he headed the school at the station Nikolsk-Ussuriysk. In 1917, according to the list of Social Revolutionaries, he was elected the mayor of Nikolsk-Ussuriysk, a member of the Public Safety Committee. From December 1917 - Chairman of the Primorsky Regional District Council . In fact, since August 1918, he removed the Provisional Siberian Government (Derber) from the political arena, although he acted in alliance with him against Horvath . He recognized that the only legal Russian military force was the white Vladivostok troops under the control of Colonel Tolstov, appointed by him and Derber . The expected entry into the command of the troops of Vladivostok on August 23, 1918, Pleshkov met with hostility, launching a campaign against him, accusing him of Bonapartism. He ordered the Vladivostok militia to tear down the leaflets of Horvat and arrest his emissaries during the "Propaganda or Propaganda War" of the governments of Derber - Lavrov and Horvat. On January 31, 1920, after Kolchak lost power in Siberia and Primorye, the Primorsk regional territorial council, headed by Medvedev, announced that he was temporarily taking over all the power in the Primorsky region. ^[1] In 1920, Medvedev headed the Primorsky government as chairman. In November 1920, the Primorsk region became part of the Far Eastern Republic (FER) . During the White Guard coup in Primorye in May 1921, Medvedev was arrested, then taken by the Japanese to Harbin, and from there to Chita. From the end of July 1920 to October 1922, he worked in the Government Aid Committee for the Starving Soviet Russia. In 1921 he passed to the Constituent Assembly of the FER. In October 1922, he was arrested by the FAR Directorate of the Political Administration against the Far Eastern Party Organization of Socialist Revolutionaries (“the case of the 24th”). Sentenced to imprisonment in the Arkhangelsk concentration camp for three years. In 1925, during the review of the case by the troika of a special meeting at the OGPU collegium, he was exiled to Central Asia for three years. About his fate is not known.

• Drokov S.V. Admiral Kolchak and the court of history. - M .: ZAO Tsentrpoligraf, 2009. - 591 p. - (Russia forgotten and unknown). ISBN 978-5-9524-3720-3

• Medvedev A. - on the site "Chronos"

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