Summary
Romuald Adamovich Muklevich (Russian: Ромуальд Адамович Муклевич, Polish: Romuald Muklewicz, 25 November 1890 – 9 February 1938) was a Soviet military figure and Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces from August 1926 to July 1931.
Romuald Muklevich | |
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| Born | 25 November 1890 Supraśl, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 9 February 1938 (aged 47) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Allegiance |  Soviet Union |
| Service/ |  Imperial Russian Navy Soviet Navy |
| Years of service | 1912-1934 |
| Rank | Fleet's Flag-officer of 1st Rank |
| Commands held | Soviet Navy |
| Battles/wars | World War I, Russian Civil War |
Early life edit
Muklevich was born in Supraśl in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (currently in Białystok County, Poland).[1] He was a son of a textile worker of Polish ethnicity. He joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906 and became chairman of several local committees.[2]
Career edit
Muklevich was drafted into Baltic Fleet as a sailor in 1912, and completed a marine engineering course (Kronstadt) in 1915 and was promoted to petty officer.
In 1917 he participated in the February and October revolutions including the storming of the Winter Palace.
In 1918-1922 he was political commissar on the Western Front. From 1922 he was commissar of the military academy of the Red Army and in 1925 he was deputy commander of the Soviet Air Force. He was commander of the Soviet Navy between 1926 and 1931. From 1934 he was commissar for the shipbuilding industry and in 1936 he was made deputy People's Commissar (minister) for the defence industries.[3]
During the Great Purge, he was arrested on 28 May 1937, and accused of "organising a Polish fascist conspiracy in the Red Army", to which he confessed under torture. He was sentenced to death on 8 February 1938 and shot the following day.[4]
Romuald Muklevich was posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.
Personality edit
Alexander Barmine wrote that "Fat and sturdy and round-faced, this Old Bolshevik had all the quiet confidence and also the appearance of a born leader ... He was the kind of man whom Stalin does not willingly let live, even behind bars."[5]
Notes edit
- ^ "Муклевич Ромуальд Адамович, Биогафический Указатель". Chronos. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "Муклевич Ромуальд Адамович ::: Мартиролог: Жертвы политических репрессий, расстрелянные и захороненные в Москве и Московской области в период с 1918 по 1953 год". www.sakharov-center.ru. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
- ^ "ORDER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC on the personnel of the army No. 103. - M .: Central Printing House of the NKVM, 1928. - February 23".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "МУКЛЕВИЧ РОМУАЛЬД АДАМОВИЧ — информация на портале Энциклопедия Всемирная история". w.histrf.ru. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
- ^ Barmine, Alexander (1945). One Who Survived. G.P.Putnam's Sons. pp. 123–24.