Martin Antonenko
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Revolutionary uprise at Sebastopol
On November 24, 1905, a revolutionary sailor uprising broke out in the port and land fortress of Sebastopol.
Days and weeks earlier, after the mutiny on the battleship "Knyas Potjomkin Tavritchevskiy"...
…there were many “wild” gatherings of sailors and workers who expressed clear sympathy for the revolutionary unrest that had broken out in Russia.
The sailors are a dangerous enemy of the tsarist government. Unlike the army soldiers (simple peasants, mostly illiterate), most sailors have a lot of technical knowledge - can read and write - and therefore compare...
When the state power wants to take action and arrest the spokesmen for the sailors, there is an armed uprising!
The seafarers are demanding more tolerable living conditions and democratic reforms in the state, army and navy.
The leader of the uprising, Lieutenant Pyotr Pyotrevich Schmidt...
...serves on the cruiser "Ochakov"....:
He was followed by around 2,500 men from the Black Sea Fleet ships in the harbour.
However, the majority of the 22 ships anchored there remain loyal to the state power.
Apart from "Ochakov", only the crews of the battleship "St. Pantaleon" ...
... of the light cruiser "Grid"...
... the minelayer "Bug"...
... the submarine "Uralets"...
... and the trainig vessel "Dnjestr“...
... decrlare themselves for the revolution.
The ships' crews raise red flags and overwhelm their officers.
The gun crews of the fortress batteries also follow Schmidt.
Heavy fighting ensued during the merciless suppression of the uprising, and the state deployed eight infantry regiments – more than 10,000 men!
After only 45 minutes of fighting, the uprising is over. Half of the city of Sebastopol is destroyed because sailors from "Ochakov" and the fortress batteries are shooting at accumulations of tsarist troops in the city...:
More than 2,000 participants are arrested on the ships and on land.
More than 300 of them will be court-martialed and tried, and more than 1,000 others will be sentenced without trial. (demotion, punishment units etc.)
Lieutenant Schmidt, the boatswain Antonenko and the sailors Gladkov and Chastnik...
...all from the cruiser "Ochakov", are sentenced to death and on March 6, 1906 on the island of Berezan...
...shot.
The Blagovestschensky Bridge in Saint Petersburg, built in 1842, was named after Lieutenant Schmidt during the Soviet era - at the time it was the first permanent bridge over the Neva.
Today it is again called Blagoveshchensky Bridge (= Annunciation Bridge"). The current ruling autocrat has a thing against revolutionaries, and with good reason...
On November 24, 1905, a revolutionary sailor uprising broke out in the port and land fortress of Sebastopol.
Days and weeks earlier, after the mutiny on the battleship "Knyas Potjomkin Tavritchevskiy"...
…there were many “wild” gatherings of sailors and workers who expressed clear sympathy for the revolutionary unrest that had broken out in Russia.
The sailors are a dangerous enemy of the tsarist government. Unlike the army soldiers (simple peasants, mostly illiterate), most sailors have a lot of technical knowledge - can read and write - and therefore compare...
When the state power wants to take action and arrest the spokesmen for the sailors, there is an armed uprising!
The seafarers are demanding more tolerable living conditions and democratic reforms in the state, army and navy.
The leader of the uprising, Lieutenant Pyotr Pyotrevich Schmidt...
...serves on the cruiser "Ochakov"....:
He was followed by around 2,500 men from the Black Sea Fleet ships in the harbour.
However, the majority of the 22 ships anchored there remain loyal to the state power.
Apart from "Ochakov", only the crews of the battleship "St. Pantaleon" ...
... of the light cruiser "Grid"...
... the minelayer "Bug"...
... the submarine "Uralets"...
... and the trainig vessel "Dnjestr“...
... decrlare themselves for the revolution.
The ships' crews raise red flags and overwhelm their officers.
The gun crews of the fortress batteries also follow Schmidt.
Heavy fighting ensued during the merciless suppression of the uprising, and the state deployed eight infantry regiments – more than 10,000 men!
After only 45 minutes of fighting, the uprising is over. Half of the city of Sebastopol is destroyed because sailors from "Ochakov" and the fortress batteries are shooting at accumulations of tsarist troops in the city...:
More than 2,000 participants are arrested on the ships and on land.
More than 300 of them will be court-martialed and tried, and more than 1,000 others will be sentenced without trial. (demotion, punishment units etc.)
Lieutenant Schmidt, the boatswain Antonenko and the sailors Gladkov and Chastnik...
...all from the cruiser "Ochakov", are sentenced to death and on March 6, 1906 on the island of Berezan...
...shot.
The Blagovestschensky Bridge in Saint Petersburg, built in 1842, was named after Lieutenant Schmidt during the Soviet era - at the time it was the first permanent bridge over the Neva.
Today it is again called Blagoveshchensky Bridge (= Annunciation Bridge"). The current ruling autocrat has a thing against revolutionaries, and with good reason...
