Antonov-Ovseenko Anton Vladimirovich

Antonov-Ovseenko Anton Vladimirovich

Genus. in 1920 in the family of professional revolutionary Antonov-Ovseenko V.A. In 1929, the mother was arrested, in 1937, the father. Expelled from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute (MGPI), where since 1935 he studied at the history department and from the Komsomol. Arrested in 1940, soon released. In June 1941 he was arrested for the second time in Ashgabat. In the summer of 1942 he was sent by convoy to the Volga. He worked on the construction of the Saratov-Stalingrad railway. Released at the end of his prison term in January 1943. Returned to Moscow, worked in a canteen and bakery. In August 1943 he was arrested for the third time. Sentenced by a Special Meeting of the NKVD on 02/02/1944 to 8 years in labor camp. He was kept in a camp in Golitsyno, Moscow region, in a camp on Pechora, and since 1944 he was sent to the music and drama theater of the Abez camp. Released in 1953, he worked as a cultural worker in sanatoriums and rest homes in the south. Rehabilitated in 1957. Since 1960 he lived in Moscow, worked in archives. In 1965 he published a book about his father “In the Name of the Revolution” under the pseudonym Anton Rakitin, in 1975 - “V.A. Antonov-Ovseenko”. In 1980, a book about Stalin, “Portrait of a Tyrant,” was published in New York. Since 1995, he has headed the Union of Organizations of Victims of Political Repression of the Moscow Region; since 2000, he has been Chairman of the Board of the Regional Public Organization of Victims of Political Repression, which achieved the transfer of the building on the street to it. Petrovka, 16, to house the State Museum of the History of the Gulag.