Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov

Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov
Born	(1880-09-25)September 25, 1880 Burdukovo, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	July 11, 1918(1918-07-11) (aged 37) Simbirsk, Russian SFSR
Allegiance	Russian Empire  Russian Republic  Russian SFSR
Service/branch	Imperial Russian Army Red Army
Years of service	1904–1918
Commands held	Company of 122nd Tambov Infantry Regiment Petrograd's Defense Petrograd Military District Armed forces against Kerensky Chief of Staff for Antonov-Ovseyenko Group of forces onto Kyiv Armed forces of Odessa Red Army Eastern Front Simbirsk separatist forces
Battles/wars	Russo-Japan War World War I Russian Civil War

Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov (Russian: Михаи́л Арте́мьевич Муравьёв) (September 25 [O.S. September 13] 1880 – July 11, 1918) was a Russian officer who changed sides during the time of the Civil War in Russia and the Soviet-Ukrainian war.

He was born in a village of Burdukovo, near Vetluga Kostroma Governorate to a peasant family. In 1898 he entered the army, serving in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I, in which he was a lieutenant colonel on the Southwestern Front.

After the February Revolution he organized volunteer units to continue the war, but he became disaffected with the Provisional Government and joined the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries. During the October Revolution he defended Petrograd against the forces of Alexander Kerensky.

In January 1918 he led Red Guard units against the Central Rada of Ukraine and after the Battle of Kruty his forces took Kyiv, where they carried out mass terror against the officers of the imperial army and pro-Ukrainian elements. Then his forces fought for the Odessa Soviet Republic against the Romanians and Austro-Hungarians, and in spring 1918 against the Don Cossack forces of General Kaledin.

However, after he had been named commander of the Eastern Front, fighting the Czechoslovak Legion, he heard of the Left SR uprising against the Bolsheviks in early July and rebelled, sailing down the Volga with a thousand men, hoping to take Simbirsk (Muravyov revolt [ru]). He was captured by the Bolsheviks, resisted arrest, and was shot while trying to draw a gun.