Anton Antonov-Ovseenko

{{Short description|Russian historian and writer}}

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{{Infobox writer

| name = Anton Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseenko

| native_name = Антон Владимирович Антонов-Овсеенко

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|2|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Soviet Russia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|7|9|1920|2|23|df=y}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russia

| occupation = Writer and historian

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| alma_mater = Moscow State Pedagogical Institute

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| relatives = Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko (father)

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Anton Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseenko ({{langx|ru|Анто́н Влади́мирович Анто́нов-Овсе́енко}}; 23 February 1920 – 9 July 2013) was a Russian historian and writer.{{cite web |title= |script-title=uk:Aнтонов-Овсеенко Антон Владимирович (р.1920): историк, писатель, публицист |trans-title=Antonov-Ovseenko Anton Vladimirovich (b. 1920): historian, writer, publicist |url=http://www.sakharov-center.ru/asfcd/auth/authord919.html?id=342 |access-date=22 August 2011 |publisher=The Sakharov Center}} (biography on the Sakharov Center website){{cite web|url=http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130711/182185315/Russia-Mourns-Stalin-Scholar-Gulag-Museum-Founder.html |title=Russia Mourns Stalin Scholar, Gulag Museum Founder |publisher=Ria.ru |date=2013-07-11 |access-date=2013-07-12}}

Born on 23 February 1920, he was the son of the Bolshevik military leader Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko who commanded the assault on the Winter Palace.{{cite news|author=Гальперович, Данила|title=Директор Государственного музея ГУЛАГа Антон Владимирович Антонов-Овсеенко|newspaper=Радио Свобода |url=http://www.svoboda.org/content/transcript/2085640.html|publisher=Radio Liberty|access-date=19 August 2011|date=27 June 2010}} In 1923 he signed the declaration of 46. In 1935, he joined the historical faculty of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. In 1938, he was expelled from Komsomol and the institute wherein, however, he was reinstated in the same year.

He was arrested in 1940 and spent 13 years in labor camps.

Antonov-Ovseenko is best known for his biography of Lavrentiy Beria and he also wrote several books.

Antonov-Ovseenko operated a state museum on the Gulag, for which the Moscow administration provided a building in August 2001.{{cite book|author=Banerji, Arup|title=Writing history in the Soviet Union: making the past work|year=2008|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-81-87358-37-4|page=271|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NqJS-H-odnYC&pg=PA271}}{{cite web|url=http://www.theworld.org/2011/10/stalinism-gulag-museum/ |title=Stalinism Survivor Runs Gulag Museum In Moscow | @pritheworld |publisher=Theworld.org |date=2011-10-27 |access-date=2013-07-10}}

When he died in 2013, he was still working two full days a week to continue documenting what he called "the evils of the Soviet era" and to help with plans for a new, larger space.{{cite news|author=Schwirtz, Michael|title=Anton Antonov Ovseyenko, Who Exposed Stalin Terror, Dies at 93 |work=The New York Times|date=10 July 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/world/europe/anton-antonov-ovseyenko-who-exposed-stalin-terror-dies-at-93.html}}