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Anatoly Grigorievich Zheleznyakov

Анатолий Григорьевич Железняков
Soviet Union state institutions Anarchists Russia Russia 1895–1919 ✕ Killed in action

The anarchist sailor who dissolved the Constituent Assembly with 'The guard is tired', an icon of the revolution who fell in battle at 24

Tauride Palace, 4 a.m., 5 January 1918. 'The guard is tired. I ask you to leave the chamber.' With those words, after 13 hours of debate, the Russian Constituent Assembly closed forever.

An anarchist revolutionary from the Baltic Fleet. He took part in the storming of the Winter Palace in October 1917, and on 5 January 1918, as chief of the guard at the Tauride Palace, he dissolved the Russian Constituent Assembly with the immortal words 'The guard is tired,' becoming a legend of the revolution. During the Civil War he fought the Don, Krasnov, and Denikin forces as a machine-gunner and armored train commander, though he never joined the Bolshevik Party. Killed by Denikin's artillery in July 1919, he was posthumously revived as a hero of Soviet songs, poems, and films.

Career timeline
  • 1915Conscripted into the 2nd Baltic Fleet crew, entered engine school
  • 1916Deserted fearing arrest, worked under alias as stoker and assistant mechanic on Black Sea merchant ships
  • 1917.05Elected delegate to the 1st Congress of the Baltic Fleet (Tsentrobalt)
  • 1917.06Defended Durnovo Dacha against government troops; arrested, sentenced to 14 years; escaped Kresty Prison in September
  • 1917.10Naval Revolutionary Committee member; led capture of the Admiralty and storming of the Winter Palace
  • 1918.01Chief of the guard at Tauride Palace — dissolved the Constituent Assembly
  • 1918.03Commander of Birzula fortified district; fought Austro-German forces
  • 1918.06–09Commander of the 1st Yelansky Infantry Regiment in Kikvidze's division; fought Krasnov's Cossacks on the Tsaritsyn front
  • 1918.10–1919.04Underground work in Odessa under alias Viktors; after uprising, chairman of the merchant marine union
  • 1919.05–07Commander of armored train Khudyakov; suppressed Grigoriev revolt, killed by artillery on the Denikin front