Roberts Eidemanis

Roberts Eidemanis
Robert Eideman and the American military attaché Philip R. Faymonville
BornMay 9, 1895
Lejasciems, Gulbene Municipality, Russian Empire (now Latvia)
DiedJune 12, 1937
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
AllegianceRussian Empire
Soviet Union
Years of service1916–1917 (Russian Empire)
1918–1937 (Soviet Union)
RankKomkor
Battles / warsWorld War I
Russian Civil War

Roberts Eidemanis (Russian: Ро́берт Петро́вич Эйдема́н, Robert Petrovich Eideman; May 9, 1895 – June 12, 1937) was a Latvian Soviet Komkor, writer and poet. Executed during the Latvian Operation of the Great Purge, he was rehabilitated during the Khrushchev Thaw.