Theodor Nette

Theodor Ivanovich Nette (Russian: Теодор Иванович Нетте, born 1895 or 1896 – died February 5, 1926, Moscow-Riga train, Latvia) was a Soviet diplomatic courier of NKID, who died in a terrorist attack on the Soviet train while delivering diplomatic mail to Berlin.

Official version says that he worked underground since August 1917 when German troops occupied Riga.

Since the beginning of 1918 worked in Petrograd as the secretary of the visa department of RSFSR Narkomindel, later became a politcommissar of the second battalion of the 1st Red Latvian Riflemen regiment.

Armed men required the trainman to show courier's compartment and attacked the Soviet trade representative Pecherskiy.

Mahmastal stayed in the coupe and guarded the diplomatic cargo until Riga, where USSR Plenipotentiary Officers arrived.