Who is Artyem Artyemiyevich Makeyev from The Case of Comrade Tulayev and what is their importance?

Makeyev is an upwardly mobile man, born a lowly peasant from Akimovka. He is not a popular child because he is red-headed, pockmarked, and bowlegged from a case of rickets. Makeyev becomes a soldier in 1917 and slowly rises up the ladder of success, joining the Party in 1919 and eventually becoming the Regional Secretary of Kurgansk. Makeyev feels things rather than thinking them through. He acts on instinct. Makeyev is an imposing figure with deeply set eyes, arched brows, a heavy face, and a shaved conical head. He believes he is superior to everyone except for Party officials, who hold a higher rank than him. Makeyev is eventually arrested backstage at an opera and charged with being part of a plot to murder Comrade Tulayev. Makeyev at first protests his innocence but then ceases to resist and agrees to sign a full confession.