Biography of Peter Mukhin

Petrov-Mukhin: All life in the struggle of March 29 is the history of a “professional” revolutionary, which has long been kept not so much in family archives as in the residual memory of Marina and Natalia Kospolovs. Natalia - artist, restorer, local historian. Marina is an employee of the museum complex named after And while Natalia came up with the idea of ​​creating material about her great -grandfather on the maternal line and along the grandmother’s line, Ivan Asinkritovich Petrov, Marina found in her deeper archives the local history of the Nizhny Tagil material, published in Soviet times, which became the basis for our history today.

So, Dmitry Asinkritovich Petrov was born on October 24 in the village of Salavir of the Nizhny Novgorod province. The family was large, the father was a poor peasant. That’s why the boy was brought up by his uncle, who, however, was also not rich, and Dmitry had to work from an early age for the sake of food. Already at the age of 15, he began an independent life.

At this time, he entered the factory in the town of Kulebaki. Here he met the revolutionaries, which predetermined his entire future fate. Tempered in the struggle for survival, brought up in conditions of extreme need, he quickly became confidence in the workers, becoming one of the leaders of the underground revolutionary movement, and the power of the working class for him became the main life idea.

In the year - the first arrest. He was concluded in the Ardatovsky prison in the Nizhny Novgorod province for entering a criminal society, calling himself the "Kulebak organization of the RSDLP", which obviously set the goal of his activity, the overthrow of the existing system in Russia. " From here, Dmitry Asinkritovich managed to run quickly. He began to wander around the country, living illegally and completing the tasks of the Moscow and Baku organizations, in fact, leading the lifestyle of the intelligence officer and spy.

He organized strikes and strikes at the enterprises of the country. In September, the young revolutionary was tracked and sent by stage to Nizhny Novgorod. His name was then match - Peter Green. He was released from the Nizhny Novgorod prison in the year. He began to work as a locksmith in Moscow. Repeatedly organized strikes. In June, it was for the preparation of the strike of electricians, he was again detained.

In September, he was sent from Moscow without the right to return. Until a year, with the vigilant supervision of the authorities, he works, leading all the same “double” life in Petrograd, Podolsk, Volsk, Sormov, Nikolaev. The year is also expelled from Nikolaev. The First World War flared up. And in connection with the mobilization of the grip of internal organs, a little weakened.

Dmitry Asincritovich again goes underground. He moves to the Urals, changes his last name, appearance. He grew a lush beard, long hair. He worked in Lysva and Perm, until in May the year was settled in Nizhny Tagil. His appearance was changed decently, he carefully conspired, because before the revolution no one knew him ... He already had extensive experience in the political struggle, therefore immediately became one leader in the underground party organization of the IDMZ.

It was here that he had already received the double surname Petrov-Mukhin, with whom he entered the history of the revolutionary movement in the Urals. His comrade and ally A. Barkhatov noted: "The heat of handling people and the real Bolshevik conviction conquered everyone." In the year, he is elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Nizhny Tagil Council of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies and the head of the police, and at the beginning of the year, having already completely left the underground, he becomes the chairman of the executive committee of the Nizhny Tagil Council, in fact, the head of the city.

In this position, he remained until October, until the whites came to Nizhny Tagil. So, in Nizhny Tagil, under the leadership of Petrov-Mukhin, the People’s Police was created, several large enterprises were nationalized, the authorities of the Soviets were finally accepted, he was the first to offer the Brothers of the Board of the Soviets, the Bolsheviks were created after a long struggle with the Mensheviks and Sesers and the party committee was elected.

Most of those present after Petrov-Mukhin then silently left a large meeting.

During the Civil War, he again was shaking around the country, he works in party and Soviet posts in Okhansk, Chelyabinsk, Vyatka. Finally, after the final victory of the Bolsheviks, his life is somewhat calmed down. In gg. Upon returning, he works in senior positions in the Office of the headstand tool and in the control and measuring farm of the Glavka. In the year, due to health reasons, Dmitry Asincritovich retired.

Active revolutionary activity, the struggle for power of the Soviets was replaced by a new struggle - for health and life. This last war ended in Moscow in the year. He is buried in the Vagankovsky cemetery. Despite the stormy life that took place in a constant struggle, Dmitry Asincritovich was able to leave the descendants. His wife Irina was pregnant when he offered her hand and heart.The fact is that the father of the baby was shot shortly before, and almost three months after the connection of the fate of Dmitry and Irina was born to the light of Sasha.

Subsequently, Sasha had a half -brother and sister - Seryozha and Lida. It was Lydia Dmitrievna that was dedicated to the material “Ty” “Real Artist in his business”, released exactly a week ago, March 23. As you know, Lidia Dmitrievna had three children. And the daughter of Elizabeth became the mother of Natalia and Marina of the Kospolovs, thanks to the efforts of which this material was born.

And if the granddaughter asked Lida’s grandmother: “And who was your dad? But as contemporaries that have already been noted above, so his descendants have repeatedly spoke of the restraint and softness of Dmitry Asincritovich in communication with people. In itself, he was an intelligent man, but a difficult childhood and stormy youth made himself felt - he simply could no longer help but fight.

Yes, and the motives of his struggle on the surface - he grew up in extreme poverty. In Nizhny Tagil, before the revolution, there were three Vvedensky streets, called as it was instituted at that time, in honor of the nearby Vvedensky Church, and built by log houses of factory, ore and mining workers. After the revolution, they were renamed the Sverdlovsk streets. A little later, the 3rd Sverdlovskaya became Mukhina Street, precisely in honor of Dmitry Asincritovich.

However, after the war, in the years, the 1st Sverdlovsk and Mukhina Street were built up, and the 2nd Sverdlovskaya became Parkhomenko Street. Today it is one of the longest streets of Nizhny Tagil, it crosses the main street of K. Marx and Lenin Avenue. And the other day, on the pages of the Tagil Worker newspaper, which, by the way, in September, on the instructions of the Tagil Committee of the RSDLP B, Dmitry Asincritovich headed, a photograph of his work bust I.

was found. A bust is stored, according to the newspaper, in the Nizhny Tagil Museum-Reserve. A whole corner was dedicated to the exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the October Revolution.