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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 ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Boris Viktorovich Savinkov was a revolutionary who violently opposed both the imperial and the Soviet regimes in Russia. He wrote several pseudonymous novels based on his career as a terrorist. Savinkov joined the Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1903 and was a leader of its terrorist organization.
Jan 13, 2022 · Savinkov cites the letter the terrorist Boris Vnorovsky wrote to his parents before he died throwing a bomb: “Many times, in my youth, I had the desire to end my life.” In terrorism he found a way to do it. He was resolved on death, and all that “remained to be done was to find a definite program.”
In his struggle against the Tsarist autocracy Savinkov successfully organized two resounding political assassinations. His struggle against the Bolsheviks resulted only in a series of fiascos, culminating in his recognition of the Soviet regime and his subsequent alleged suicide in a Moscow prison.
Jan 1, 2023 · While today only specialists in modern Russian history and literature are likely to recognize Savinkov's name, in his day he was an international celebrity, feted in the pages of leading European and American newspapers for a lifetime of resistance to both tsarist and Bolshevik tyranny.
Boris Savinkov’s life provides rich material for a biographer. A revolutionary terrorist in late imperial Russia, Savinkov was responsible for several spectacular assassinations, including the Governor General of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergei.
Last week, Koerner Fellow Vladimir Alexandrov released his most recent publication: To Break Russia’s Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks.
