This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Boris Savinkov" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(October 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Boris Savinkov
Борис Савинков
Savinkov in 1917
Born
Boris Viktorovich Savinkov
31 January 1879
Kharkov, Russian Empire
Died
7 May 1925(1925-05-07) (aged 46)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Cause of death
Defenestration (murder or suicide)
Education
St. Petersburg University, Heidelberg University
Occupation
Assistant War Minister in Provisional Government
Organization(s)
Fighting Organisation 1906–1911 White movement and
Union for the Defense of the Motherland and Freedom 1918
Notable work
Memoirs of a Terrorist, The Pale Horse
Political party
Socialist Revolutionary Party 1906–1911
Boris Viktorovich Savinkov (Russian: Бори́с Ви́кторович Са́винков; 31 January 1879 – 7 May 1925) was a Russian writer and revolutionary. As one of the leaders of the SR Combat Organization, the paramilitary wing of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, Savinkov was involved in the assassinations of several high-ranking imperial officials in 1904 and 1905.
After the February Revolution of 1917, he became Assistant Minister of War (in office from July to August 1917) in the Provisional Government. After the October Revolution of the same year, he organized armed resistance against the ruling Bolsheviks.
In 1921 he wrote, "The Russian people do not want Lenin, Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky, not merely because the Bolsheviks mobilize them, shoot them, take their grain and are ruining Russia. The Russian people do not want them for the simple reason that .... nobody elected them."[1]
Savinkov emigrated from Soviet Russia in 1920, but on August 16, 1924 he was arrested in Minsk, along with Lyubov Efimovna Dikgof and her husband A. A. Dikgof. The OGPU, with the help of agent Andrei Fedorov (who had gained the confidence of Savinkov) lured him back to the Soviet Union as part of a Syndicate-2 operation.[2] He was either killed in prison or committed suicide.
^Volkogonov, Dmitri (1994). Lenin: Life and Legacy. Translated by Shukman, Harold. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-255123-6. Quoted on p.72
^Heinrich Ioffe. What Was. To the 130th Anniversary of the Birth of Boris Savinkov
Boris Viktorovich Savinkov (Russian: Бори́с Ви́кторович Са́винков; 31 January 1879 – 7 May 1925) was a Russian writer and revolutionary. As one of the...
Savinkov (Russian: Савинков) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Savinkova. It may refer to BorisSavinkov (1879–1925), Russian...
that was given autonomy under that Party. In his memoirs, group member BorisSavinkov called the group the "Terrorist Brigade." (This phrasing was followed...
Freedom was a military anti-Bolshevik organisation. It was founded by BorisSavinkov in March 1918, and sanctioned by the command of the Volunteer Army led...
repeatedly met with BorisSavinkov, head of the counter-revolutionary Union for the Defence of the Motherland and Freedom (UDMF). Savinkov had been Deputy...
Cheka. The prison became operational in 1920. Its prisoners included BorisSavinkov, Osip Mandelstam, Gen. Władysław Anders, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...
not overly successful. Among the successes of Trust was the luring of BorisSavinkov and Sidney Reilly into the Soviet Union, where they were captured. The...
another double agent, Azef became head of the combat organisation, with BorisSavinkov as his deputy. Azef thus became both Russia's leading terrorist and...
Rakitnikov (Maksimov), Vadim Rudnev, Nikolay Rusanov, Ilya Rubanovich and BorisSavinkov. The party's programme was democratic and socialist – it garnered much...
band in Alan Moore's comic Watchmen The Pale Horse, a 1909 novel by BorisSavinkov, published under the pseudonym "V. Ropshin" The Pale Horse, a 1997 film...
Romanian Front. Among those who came to the Don were public figures. BorisSavinkov, the former head of the Socialist Revolutionary Combat Organization...
Union of Central Russia". The main success of this operation was luring BorisSavinkov and Sidney Reilly into the Soviet Union, where they were arrested and...
upon historical terrorists, described in Memoirs of a Terrorist by BorisSavinkov. Act I In the apartment used by the terrorists The 'justes' are a group...
group led by his cousin, Maximilian Filonenko, who had close links with BorisSavinkov, who gave the order to assassinate Uritsky. Kannegisser's lover, an...
appear to have been a total of around thirty Polish divisions involved. BorisSavinkov was at the head of an army of 20,000 to 30,000 largely Russian POWs...
(2002–2010). He has made numerous television appearances. He appeared as BorisSavinkov the White Russian commander in the series Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)...
of General Aleksei Gutor. His promotion was requested to Kerensky by BorisSavinkov, a Provisional Government commissar to the Southwestern Front, who believed...
a White Guard uprising in Rybinsk on July 8, 1918, carried out by BorisSavinkov's anti–Bolshevik organization «Union for the Defense of the Motherland...
suppressed by the Bolsheviks in March 1918, for publishing the article by BorisSavinkov called "On Arrival" (С дороги). For it, its last editor P.V. Egorov...
of those games, the main representatives of Russian emigration like BorisSavinkov were arrested and sent for many years to prison. Another well known...
Marxist Nikolai Berdyaev and the Socialist Revolutionary terrorist BorisSavinkov among others. After the first issue of Lenin's newspaper Iskra had reached...
Russia, an anti–Bolshevik protest by the townspeople and members of BorisSavinkov's organization in Yaroslavl on July 6–21, 1918. Suppressed by the forces...
in the course of which leaders of large anti-Soviet centers abroad, BorisSavinkov and Sidney Reilly, were lured to the Soviet Union and arrested. Meanwhile...
Yaroslavl, Kalyayev befriended the Socialist-Revolutionaries and writers BorisSavinkov and Aleksey Remizov, and decided to completely devote his life to revolutionary...
Global Information
