The case of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School
1. Cover of investigative file No. 2350/2456-18 of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School, opened in 1918 by the Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Profiteering. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
2. Cover of investigative file No. 2530 of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School with a list of those arrested in the case. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
3. Cover of the archival-investigative case No. 2460-18 and No. 2350-18 on charges of Sergey Fedorovich Orlov and others, archival No. 47037. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
4. Cover of investigative case No. 2460 on a conspiracy at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School (1 sheet, electronic copy)
5. Cover of the investigation file No. 1299 and 2047 of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School, archival No. P-16014. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
6. Statement by a cadet of the 7th division of the 1st Soviet Artillery courses Olshansky V. dated 07/11/1918 about the alleged officer-organizer of the counter-revolutionary conspiracy. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
7. Order of the Cheka under the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies for the fight against counter-revolution and speculation No. 1232 dated 07/13/1918 for a search and arrest of Yudin B. and others at his discretion, signed by M. Uritsky. Sheet 14. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
8. Order of the Cheka under the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies for the fight against counter-revolution and speculation No. 1243 of 07/13/1918 for the arrest of all men at Ivanovskaya st., 4, apt. 6, signed by M. Uritsky. Sheet 15 (1 sheet, electronic copy)
9. Order of the Cheka under the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies for the fight against counter-revolution and speculation No. 1223 dated 07/14/1918 for the arrest of all adult men at the address V.O., 11th line, 12, apt. 4 and 14, signed by M. Uritsky. Sheet 16. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
10. Order of the Cheka under the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies for the fight against counter-revolution and speculation No. 1269 dated 07/15/1918 for the arrest of all adult men at the address V.O., 11th line, 12, apt. 4 and 14, signed by M. Uritsky. Sheet 17. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
11. Protocol of the search at 7 Bogomutovskaya St., apt. 2, carried out on 07/13/1918; Lyudin B. and Gertsenshtein G. List 18 were detained. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
12. Protocol of the search at 4 Ivanovskaya St., apt. 6, carried out on 07/13/1918; Boshnyak L.L. was detained. and Troitsky K.D. Sheet 19. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
13. Minutes of the search conducted on 07/15/1918 at the address V.O., 11th line, 12, apt. 4 and 14. Sheet 20. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
14. Protocol of interrogation of Mikhailov M.A., no file. Sheet 21. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
15. Protocol of interrogation of cadet Vasiliev V.A., no file. Sheet 22. (2 sheets, electronic copy)
16. Protocol of interrogation Lyudin B.A. from 07/15/1918. Sheet 23. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
17. Protocol of interrogation Pekalo B.M. (until 07/14/1918). Sheet 24. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
18. Protocol of interrogation of Boshnyak L.L. from 07/14/1918. Sheets 25-26. (3 sheets, electronic copy)
19. Protocol of interrogation of Troitsky K.D. from 07/14/1918. Sheet 27. (2 sheets, electronic copy)
20. Letter of the Petrograd District Commissariat of Military Educational Institutions No. 972 dated 07/12/1918 to the Cheka for Combating Counter-Revolution with a request for immediate investigation of the arrested instructors and cadets. Sheet 28. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
21. Sheet with the inscription: "A note found in cigarettes by Pruss." Sheet 29. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
22. Statement by Dityatiev G.V. dated 07/18/1918 to the Extraordinary Investigative Commission. Sheets 31-32. (3 sheets, electronic copy)
23. Letter No. 102 dated [until 08/07/1918] from the inspector of the Artillery formations of the Commissariat for Military Affairs of the Petrograd Labor Commune addressed to the military commissariat Bogatin with a request to expedite the completion of the investigation against the arrested instructors of the 1st Soviet artillery courses Verevkin N.M., Popov V.Z. and Dityatiev G.V. Sheet 33. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
24. Statement by Dityatiev G.V. dated 07/23/1918 to the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry. Sheet 34. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
25. Petition of Dementiev I. for release on bail, n/d. Sheet 35. (2 sheets, electronic copy)
26. Application of the arrested Arnautovsky G.S. dated July 1918 addressed to the investigator of the Cheka for the fight against counter-revolution with a request to inquire about the health of his mother Arnautovskaya N.I., who is in the Sampsonievsky hospital. Sheet 36. (2 sheets, electronic copy)
27. Record of interrogation of Popov V.Z. dated 07/12/1918. Sheet 37. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
28. Protocol of interrogation of Dityatiev G.V. dated 07/13/1918. Sheet 38. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
29. Protocol of interrogation of cadet Bogdanov M.S. (until 07/14/1918). Sheet 39. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
30. Protocol of interrogation of cadet Anaevsky P.M. (until 07/14/1918). Sheet 40. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
31. Protocol of interrogation of V. B. Pereltsveig, no file. Sheets 42-43. (3 sheets, electronic copy)
32. Protocol of interrogation of Baum N.G. with the resolution "Liberate" dated 07/15/1918. Sheet 44. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
33. Protocol of interrogation of Arnautovsky G.S. dated 07/13/1918. Sheet 4... (1 sheet, electronic copy)
34. Protocol of interrogation of Orlov S.F., no file. Sheet 46. (2 sheets, electronic copy)
35. Protocol of interrogation of I. M. Kudryavtsev dated 07/13/1918. Sheet 47(?). (1 sheet, electronic copy)
36. Record of (secondary) interrogation of Kudryavtsev I.M. dated 07/13/1918 (?). Sheet 48. (2 sheets, electronic copy)
37. List of those arrested in the case of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School. Sheet 49. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
38. Testimony of Verevkin N.M. dated 07/12/1918. Sheets 50-51. (3 sheets, electronic copy)
39. Decree of the Cheka on the fight against counter-revolution and speculation dated August 19, 1918, on the execution of Orlov S.F., Kudryavtsev I.M., Arnautovsky G.S., Pereltsveig V.B., Mastyugin V.K. and Verevkin N.M., on the translation of Popov G.V., Rukavishnikov B. and Dityatiev G.V. on the position of internees as former officers and on the separation of the case against Dementiev I. Sheet 52. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
40. Protocol of interrogation of Mastyugin V.K. dated 07/13/1918. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
41. Order of the Cheka under the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies for the fight against counter-revolution and speculation No. 1183 of 07/11/1918 for a search and arrest at the discretion of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School, signed by M. Uritsky. Sheet 55. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
42. Covering letter from the Petrograd Women's Correctional House No. 8003 dated 11/01/1918 to the Extraordinary Investigation Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution about the transfer of the arrested Solonin A.A. for interrogation. Sheet 56. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
43. Protocol of a search in the Mikhailovsky Artillery School dated 07/11/1918. Sheet 58. (3 sheets, electronic copy)
44. Protocol of interrogation of Dityatiev G.V. dated 10/31/1918. Sheet 59. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
45. Protocol of interrogation of Gertsenshtein G.G. with the resolution of Uritsky M.S. "Release" from 07/14/1918. Sheet 60. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
46. Fragment of the questionnaire of the prisoner Solonin A.A. Sheet 61. (2 sheets, electronic copy)
47. Letter of the Committee of Students of the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy No. 6 dated 10/11/1918 to the Presidium of the Extraordinary Investigation Commission with a request to expedite the completion of the investigation against the arrested professors and students of the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy. Sheet 63. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
48. Letter from the combat unit of the 1st Petrograd Soviet command artillery courses No. 4676 dated 03.11.1918 to the Cheka to combat counter-revolution and speculation about the absence of cadets Orlov and Vasily, called by agenda No. 447, in the courses in connection with their escape. Sheet 64. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
49. Letter from the office of the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy No. 1702 dated 06/06/1918 to the commissar of the 1st Soviet command artillery courses about the presence of checkers with the right to store weapons among employees of the academy Petrovich S.G., Wittorf N.M., Kupriyanov L.A., Ipatyeva V.N., Kaftanyuk P.V., Lanke N.A., Kur Aitis I.I., Gilferding A.F., Mechnikov V.V. and Semenov M.I. Sheet 67. (2 sheets, electronic copy)
50. List of those arrested with indication of their positions and their signatures. Sheet 68. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
51. Memorandum of Commissar Mikhailov dated 06/07/1918 "The Case of the Counter-Revolutionary Conspiracy at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School and Academy" with the rationale for the need for arrests. Sheets 69-70. (4 sheets, electronic copy)
52. List of personnel of the 8th department of the 1st Command artillery courses for 1918, indicating the education of cadets. Sheet 71. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
53. Memorandum of Commissar Mikhailov on the counter-revolutionary conspiracy at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School and on the intentions of the conspirators (according to Vasiliev V.A.), with a list of participants, n/d. Sheet 73. (2 sheets, electronic copy)
54. Statement by Dityatyev G.V. about his innocence, with the resolution "Call for interrogation" dated 09/20/1918. Sheet 74. (2 sheets, electronic copy)
55. Agenda of the Cheka for the fight against counter-revolution and speculation under the Union of Communes of the Northern Region dated 10/30/1918, issued to cadets of the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy Orlov and Vasiliev, with a demand to appear on 11/04/1918 to testify; the investigator's note: "Sent a second time on 11/16/1918". Sheet 76. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
56. Extract from the house register for Arnautovsky G.S., after 01/21/1918. Sheet 78. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
57. Copy of certificate No. 713 dated April 1918, issued by the Commissariat of the Narva part of the 3rd district to Ivan Kudryavtsev, about his service in the commissariat as a policeman from March to 06/28/1917, for admission to the 1st Soviet Artillery Courses;
a copy of certificate No. 298 dated April 1918, issued by the instructor of the 2nd company of the 8th numbered battalion of the 1st Corps of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army to Sergey Orlov stating that he was released for admission to the 1st Soviet Instructor Courses. Sheet 79. (1 sheet, electronic copy of a typewritten copy)
58. Protocol of interrogation of Solonin A.A. (in the document - Soloninova) dated 11/01/1918. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
59. Decree of the Cheka for combating counter-revolution and speculation under the Union of Communes of the Northern Region dated 11/24/1918 on the termination of the case against cadets of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School. Sheet 82. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
66. Decree of the Investigative Commission dated 01.11.1918 on the release of Professor A.A. Solonin of the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy. Sheet 83. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
61. Decree of the Cheka for the fight against counter-revolution and speculation of October 1918 on the release of Dityatiev G.V. Sheet 87. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
Documents (61)
1. Cover of investigative file No. 2350/2456-18 of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School, opened in 1918 by the Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Profiteering.

2. Cover of investigative file No. 2530 of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School with a list of those arrested in the case.

3. Cover of the archival investigative case No. 2460-18 and No. 2350-18 on charges against Sergei Fedorovich Orlov and others, archive No. 47037.

4. Cover of investigative case No. 2460 about the conspiracy at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School.

5. Cover of investigative file No. 1299 and 2047 of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School, archive No. P-16014.

6. Statement by the cadet of the 7th department of the 1st Soviet Artillery Course V. Olshansky dated 07/11/1918 about the alleged officer-organizer of the counter-revolutionary conspiracy.

7. Warrant of the Cheka at the Petrograd Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies for the fight against counter-revolution and profiteering No. 1232 dated July 13, 1918 for search and arrest of Yudin B. and others at its discretion, signed by M. Uritsky. Sheet 14.

8. Warrant of the Cheka at the Petrograd Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies for the fight against counter-revolution and profiteering No. 1243 dated July 13, 1918 for the arrest of all men at the address Ivanovskaya st., 4, apt. 6, signed by M. Uritsky. Sheet 15.

9. Warrant of the Cheka at the Petrograd Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies for the fight against counter-revolution and profiteering No. 1223 dated July 14, 1918 for the arrest of all adult men at the address V.O., 11th line, 12, apt. 4 and 14, signed by M. Uritsky. Sheet 16.

10. Warrant of the Cheka under the Petrograd Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies for the fight against counter-revolution and profiteering No. 1269 dated July 15, 1918 for the arrest of all adult men at the address V.O., 11th line, 12, apt. 4 and 14, signed by M. Uritsky. Sheet 17.

11. Search report at 7 Bogomutovskaya St., apt. 2, conducted on July 13, 1918; Lyudin B. and Herzenshtein G. List 18 were detained.

12. Search report at 4 Ivanovskaya St., apt. 6, conducted on July 13, 1918; detained Boshnyak L.L. and Troitsky K.D. Sheet 19.

13. Protocol of the search conducted on July 15, 1918 at V.O., 11th line, 12, apt. 4 and 14. Sheet 20.

14. Protocol of interrogation of Mikhailov M.A., no. Sheet 21.

15. Protocol of interrogation of cadet Vasilyev V.A., no. Sheet 22.


16. Protocol of interrogation of Lyudin B.A. dated 07/15/1918. Sheet 23.

17. Protocol of interrogation Pekalo B.M. (until 07/14/1918). Sheet 24.

18. Protocol of interrogation of Boshnyak L.L. dated 07/14/1918. Sheets 25-26.



19. Protocol of interrogation of Troitsky K.D. dated 07/14/1918. Sheet 27.


20. Letter from the Petrograd District Commissariat of Military Educational Institutions No. 972 dated July 12, 1918 to the Cheka for Combating Counter-Revolution with a request for an immediate inquiry into the arrested instructors and cadets. Sheet 28.

21. A sheet with the inscription: “Note found in cigarettes by Pruss.” Sheet 29.

22. Statement by Dityatyev G.V. dated July 18, 1918 to the Extraordinary Investigative Commission. Sheets 31-32.



23. Letter No. 102 from [until 08/07/1918] from the inspector of the Artillery formations of the Commissariat for Military Affairs of the Petrograd Labor Commune addressed to the military commander Bogatin with a request to expedite the completion of the investigation regarding the arrested instructors of the 1st Soviet artillery course N.M. Verevkin, V.Z. Popov. and Dityatyeva G.V. Sheet 33.

24. Statement by Dityatyev G.V. dated July 23, 1918 to the Extraordinary Investigative Commission. Sheet 34.

25. Petition from Dementyev I. for release on bail, no. Sheet 35.


26. Petition from the arrested Arnautovsky G.S. dated July 1918 addressed to the investigator of the Cheka for the fight against counter-revolution with a request to inquire about the health of his mother Arnautovskaya N.I., who is in the Sampsonievskaya hospital. Sheet 36.


27. Protocol of interrogation of Popov V.Z. dated 07/12/1918. Sheet 37.

28. Protocol of interrogation of Dityatyev G.V. dated 07/13/1918. Sheet 38.

29. Protocol of interrogation of cadet M.S. Bogdanov (until 07/14/1918). Sheet 39.

30. Protocol of interrogation of cadet P.M. Anaevsky (until 07/14/1918). Sheet 40.

31. Protocol of interrogation of Pereltsveig V.B., no. Sheets 42-43.



32. Protocol of interrogation of N.G. Baum with the resolution “Liberate” dated July 15, 1918. Sheet 44.

33. Protocol of interrogation of Arnautovsky G.S. dated 07/13/1918. Sheet 4...

34. Protocol of interrogation of Orlov S.F., no. Sheet 46.


35. Protocol of interrogation of Kudryavtsev I.M. dated July 13, 1918. Sheet 47(?).

36. Protocol of (secondary) interrogation of Kudryavtsev I.M. dated 07/13/1918 (?). Sheet 48.


37. List of those arrested in the Mikhailovsky Artillery School case. Sheet 49.

38. Testimony of N.M. Verevkin dated 07/12/1918. Sheets 50-51.



39. Resolution of the Cheka on the fight against counter-revolution and profiteering dated 08/19/1918 on the execution of Orlov S.F., Kudryavtsev I.M., Arnautovsky G.S., Pereltsveig V.B., Mastyugin V.K. and Verevkin N.M., about the translation of Popov G.V., Rukavishnikov B. and Dityatyev G.V. on the position of the internees as former officers and on the separation of the case against I. Dementyev. Sheet 52.

40. Protocol of interrogation of V.K. Mastyugin dated 07/13/1918.

41. Warrant of the Cheka under the Petrograd Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies for the fight against counter-revolution and profiteering No. 1183 dated 07/11/1918 for search and arrest at discretion in the Mikhailovsky Artillery School, signed by M. Uritsky. Sheet 55.

42. Covering letter from the Petrograd Women's Correctional Home No. 8003 dated November 1, 1918 to the Extraordinary Investigative Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution about the transfer of the arrested Solonina A.A. for interrogation. Sheet 56.

43. Protocol of the search at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School dated July 11, 1918. Sheet 58.



44. Protocol of interrogation of Dityatyev G.V. dated 10/31/1918. Sheet 59.

45. Protocol of interrogation of Herzenstein G.G. with the resolution of Uritsky M.S. “Liberate” from 07/14/1918. Sheet 60.

46. Fragment of the questionnaire of prisoner A.A. Solonina Sheet 61.


47. Letter from the Committee of Students of the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy No. 6 dated 10/11/1918 to the Presidium of the Extraordinary Investigation Commission with a request to expedite the completion of the investigation against the arrested professors and students of the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy.

48. Letter from the combat unit of the 1st Petrograd Soviet command artillery courses No. 4676 dated November 3, 1918 to the Cheka for the fight against counter-revolution and speculation about the absence from the courses of cadets Orlov and Vasily, summoned by summons No. 447, in connection with their escape. Sheet 64.

49. Letter from the office of the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy No. 1702 dated 06/06/1918 to the commissar of the 1st Soviet command artillery courses about the availability of checkers with the right to store weapons among employees at the academy S.G. Petrovich, N.M. Wittorf, L.A. Kupriyanov, V. Ipatiev. N., Kaftanyuka P.V., Lanke N.A., Kuraitisa I.I., Gilferdinga A.F., Mechnikova V.V. and Semenova M.I. Sheet 67.


50. List of those arrested, indicating their positions and their signatures. Sheet 68.

51. Memo from Commissar Mikhailov dated 06/07/1918 “The case of a counter-revolutionary conspiracy at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School and Academy” justifying the need for arrests. Sheets 69-70.




52. List of personnel of the 8th department of the 1st Command Artillery Course for 1918, indicating the education of the cadets. Sheet 71.

53. Memo by Commissar Mikhailov about the counter-revolutionary conspiracy at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School and the intentions of the conspirators (according to V.A. Vasiliev), with a list of participants, n/d. Sheet 73.


54. Statement by Dityatyev G.V. about his innocence, with the resolution “Summon for questioning” dated September 20, 1918. Sheet 74.


55. A summons from the Cheka to combat counter-revolution and profiteering under the Union of Communes of the Northern Region dated 10/30/1918, issued to the cadets of the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy Orlov and Vasiliev, with a requirement to appear on 11/04/1918 to give evidence; investigator's note: “Sent again 11/16/1918.” Sheet 76.

56. Extract from the house register for Arnautovsky G.S., after 01/21/1918. Sheet 78.

57. A copy of certificate No. 713 dated April 1918, issued by the Commissariat of the Narva part of the 3rd district to Ivan Kudryavtsev, about his service in the commissariat as a policeman from March to 06/28/1917, for admission to the 1st Soviet Artillery Course; a copy of certificate No. 298 dated April 1918, issued by the instructor of the 2nd company of the 8th numbered battalion of the 1st Corps of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to Sergei Orlov that he was released for admission to the 1st Soviet Instructor Course. Sheet 79.

58. Protocol of interrogation of Solonina A.A. (in the document - Soloninova) dated 01.11.1918.

59. Resolution of the Cheka for the fight against counter-revolution and profiteering under the Union of Communes of the Northern Region dated November 24, 1918 on the termination of the case against the cadets of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School. Sheet 82.

60. Resolution of the Investigative Commission dated November 1, 1918 on the release of professor of the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy Solonina A.A. Sheet 83.
