Peter Ivanovich Antonov was born in the stanitsa of Kamenskaya in the Donetsk region in 1872. Before the revolution, he served as an officer in the Tsarist army, and after the revolution, he became a psalmist. In 1923, he was accused of 'religious propaganda' and sentenced to 1 year of imprisonment. In 1930, he was arrested for 'anti-Soviet propaganda' and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment and 5 years of deprivation of rights. After 5 years of imprisonment, in 1935, he attempted to escape, for which he received a new sentence: 10 years in the camps. He was transported to the Karlag in Kazakhstan. On November 21, 1937, he was arrested again and a new case was initiated against him, attributing to him the 'dissemination of provocative rumors.' On December 17, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to the highest measure of punishment. The sentence was carried out on March 7, 1938.
