Nikolai Klestov

Nikolai Semenovich Klestov (Russian: Николай Семёнович Клестов; December 1873, Smolensk – 27 July 1941, Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow Oblast) who worked with the pen name Angarsky, was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, political writer and publicist.

He published works by Karl Marx, Alexander Bogdanov and Vladimir Lenin, alongside other publications for the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party before being exiled to Angarsky District, Siberia.

Klestov wrote works on party history and that of the revolutionary movement, as well as literary criticism.

He attended the Seventh (April) Conference and Sixth Congress of the RSDLP(B), at which he was criticised by Stalin.

[1] He participated in the October Revolution in Moscow and played a role in the Military Revolutionary Committee, Khamovniki district.