Background
Podtelkov, Fedor was born in 1886.
Podtelkov, Fedor was born in 1886.
Don Cossack. On active service during World War I. Became a Bolshevik organizer among the Don Cossacks. Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee on the Don. Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Don Soviet Republic during the first attempt by the Bolsheviks to take over the Don province.
Captured by anti-Bolshevik Cossacks and shot. Later glorified by M. Sholokhov in his works.