Alexander Antonov

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Alexander Antonov
Born	1889 Moscow, Russia
Died	June 24, 1922 Nizhnii Shibriai, Russia

Alexander Stepanovich Antonov (1888-1922) (Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Анто́нов) was the leader of the Tambov Rebellion during the Russian Civil War.

He had been member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party since 1906. The February Revolution liberated him from prison, where he had been serving a term for robbing railroad ticket offices. He returned to Kirsanov, and became a district police official under the Russian Provisional Government. In April 1918 he broke with the new Bolshevik government, and went underground.

Over the next two years he lead an armed guerrilla group that killed soviet and Bolshevik officials, especially those connected to conscription and forced food procurement. When the great Tambov uprising started in August 1920, he quickly put himself at the head of the movement.

After July 1921, when the uprising was crushed by Red Army forces, Antonov was forced back into hiding. On June 24, 1922 he was cornered by a Cheka detachment near Borisoglebsk and killed.