The grandson of the founder of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic died in Moscow
In Moscow, the grandson of the founder of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic, Ruben Sergeev, died from Covid.
A relative of the legendary revolutionary Comrade Artyom was 65 years old, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Today Ruben Sergeev, the grandson of the legendary revolutionaries Artem-Sergeev and Dolores Ibarruri, died in Moscow,” historian and political scientist Vladimir Kornilov writes in his blog. – He was an amazing person, amazing, explosive, energetic – you could feel his genes. He could spend hours sharing amazing stories and family legends, including about Stalin, in whose family his father was raised. I kept dreaming of writing down his reasoning so that I could later use it in my book about Artyom. But I didn’t have time...”
“And Ruben also gave incredible lectures on rocket technology and... opera - he somehow managed to combine these two topics! Now this is in the past... My sincere condolences to the family of a good friend!” – added the historian.
According to journalist Alexander Chalenko, Ruben Sergeev died from a coronavirus infection.
“In 2012, he, Kornilov and I, went to Donetsk and Lugansk for the presentation of Kornilov’s book about the DKR,” Chalenko recalls on his Facebook.
The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, expressed his condolences.
“Ruben Artemovich lived in Moscow and came to Donbass because he was keenly interested in the history of the DKR and the fate of his grandfather. He lectured at famous world universities, was a military historian and expert on issues of world politics and economics, informed the world about the tasks of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic to counter Ukrainian separatism, about the desire of the DKR to become part of Russia, about the role of Artem in the labor movement, his close connection with miners. He was our complete like-minded person, clearly aware of the processes taking place in a changing world,” noted Pushilin.
The Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic was proclaimed in Kharkov in February 1918 as an autonomy within the RSFSR. The republic was created on the lands of Southern Russia, which did not want to be part of the Ukrainian People's Republic, at that time an ally of Germany and Austria-Hungary. DKR considered itself part of Russia.
However, in 1919 in Moscow it was decided to include the DKR into the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, which was later transformed into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
“The task of the DKR was to confuse the German military command in the conditions of the advance of German troops to the east in the winter of 1917-1918. The creation of the DKR demonstrated my grandfather’s organizational and creative qualities, his talent as a negotiator, and his intransigence towards manifestations of nationalism,” – Ruben Sergeev told in an interview with PolitNavigator.
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