Antonov+Ovseenko

= **Antonov Ovseenko** = Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko was born in Russia 1884 and was the son of military officer. Antonov went to school at the Voronezh Military School also the Nikolaevsk Army Engineering College. In 1901 Antonov began to question the political system that was in Russia and was later expelled from the College for refusing to take the oath of loyalty to Nicholas II. After he was expelled he moved to Warsaw where he joined an illegal Social Democratic Labour Party. Two Leaders of the Social Democratic Labour Party began a dispute between Vladimir Lenin, and Julious Martov. Ovseenko along with 8 other members supported Martov. In august of 1904 Ovseenko was arrested for distributing illegal political propaganda, he was later released into Warsaw where he became a Junior Officer in the Kolyvan Infantry Regiment and used his position to recruit junior officers to the Mensheviks. He was arrested once again in April of 1906 but escaped from Sushchevsky Prison but captured again in June and was sentenced to death but later brought down to twenty years hard labour. After 2 more arrests he decided to leave Russia and move to France.