Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko

Anton Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseyenko
Born February 23, 1920 (1920-02-23) (age 92)
Occupation Writer and historian
Citizenship  Russia
Alma mater Moscow State Pedagogical Institute

Anton Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseyenko (Russian: Анто́н Влади́мирович Анто́нов-Овсе́енко) (born February 23, 1920) is a Russian historian and writer.[1]

He is the son of a Bolshevik military leader Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko.[2]

He was born on 23 February 1920. In 1935, he joined the historical faculty of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. In 1938, he was expelled from Komsomol and the institute wherein, however, he was reinstated in the same year.[1]

He was arrested in 1940 and spent 13 years in labor camps.

Although best known for his biography of Lavrentiy Beria, he has written several books.

Antonov-Ovseyenko runs a state museum on the Gulag, for which the Moscow administration provided a building in August 2001.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Aнтонов-Овсеенко Антон Владимирович (р.1920): историк, писатель, публицист". The Sakharov Center. http://www.sakharov-center.ru/asfcd/auth/authord919.html?id=342. Retrieved 22 August 2011.  (Antonov-Ovseyenko’s biography on the website of the Sakharov Center)
  2. ^ Гальперович, Данила (27 June 2010). "Директор Государственного музея ГУЛАГа Антон Владимирович Антонов-Овсеенко". Radio Liberty. http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/transcript/2085640.html. Retrieved 19 August 2011. 
  3. ^ Banerji, Arup (2008). Writing history in the Soviet Union: making the past work. Berghahn Books. pp. 271. ISBN 8187358378. http://books.google.com/books?id=NqJS-H-odnYC&printsec=frontcover#PPA271,M1. 

His books