Background
Markin, Nikolai was born in 1893.
Markin, Nikolai was born in 1893.
Joined the Bolshevik Party, 1916. Member of Tsentrobalt, the Bolshevik sailors’ organization, 1917. Secretary of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, 1917-1918.
On Lenin’s orders, published all the secret documents of the Tsarist Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Naval commissar for Special Affairs, June 1918. Deputy commander of the Volga fleet during the Civil War.