12 Facts About Roberts Eidemanis

Roberts Eidemanis was a Latvian Soviet Komkor, writer and poet.

Roberts Eidemanis was born May 9,1895, in Lejasciems, Gulbene Municipality of Latvia as the son of a Latvian father and an Estonian mother.

Roberts Eidemanis was one of the organizers of the Bolshevik coup in Siberia, after which he worked in the Council of Workers' Soldiers' Deputies of Kansk.

Roberts Eidemanis was later a member of the Constituent Assembly of 1918.

At the beginning of 1919, Roberts Eidemanis commanded the 16th Rifle Division on the Don Front in the battles against General Krasnov, then as the commander of the 41st, later the 46th Rifle Division, he fought against Anton Denikin's troops.

In 1920, Roberts Eidemanis commanded the 13th Army in the battles against Pyotr Wrangel's army.

In 1921, Roberts Eidemanis was appointed deputy commander of the Ukrainian and Crimean war zone.

In 1932, Roberts Eidemanis became a member of the Revolutionary Military Council and the chairman of the Central Council of the Osoaviakhim paramilitary organization.

Roberts Eidemanis was the chairman of the Central Bureau of Latvian Writers and in 1934 he was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers.

Roberts Eidemanis was arrested on May 22,1937, during the Moscow Party Conference.

Roberts Eidemanis was one of the defendants in the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization alongside Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

Roberts Eidemanis's body was secretly cremated in Moscow's Don Cemetery and buried in a mass grave.