On the issue of the participation of Colonel N. G. Osipov in the Yekaterinburg anti-Bolshevik underground in 1918
Mikhail I. Weber, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Research Fellow
Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia, mikeveber@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7512-6087
Abstract
The article presents the materials of the Yekaterinburg Investigative Commission on the case of Colonel Nikolay Gavrilovich Osipov, who served under the Soviet government as the head of the Yekaterinburg garrison and then was arrested by the Whites after the capture of the city. The introductory part of the article describes the main milestones in his life. It is established that Colonel Nikolay Osipov, although he did not sympathize with the Bolsheviks, was not a member of the anti-Bolshevik underground that was preparing an uprising in the city to overthrow the Soviet power in the summer of 1918.
Keywords
October revolution, Civil war, Red army, officers, White movement, anti-Bolshevik underground, Yekaterinburg, Russian Tsar family.
For citation:
Weber M. I. On the issue of the participation of Colonel N. G. Osipov in the Yekaterinburg anti-Bolshevik underground in 1918. Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2025, no. 2 (54), pp. 96—122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2025.54.4.
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