Boris Savinkov is known as one of the leaders of the party of socialist revolutionaries, a terrorist, publicist and poet. Such versatile "talents" put him in the front ranks of the revolutionary movement, the waves of which rolled one after another on Russia in the late XIX - early XX centuries.
From the biography of Boris Savinkov
The future leader of the Socialist Revolutionary Party was born in Kharkov on the 19th (in the new style, the 31st) of January 1879. Boris Viktorovich's father served as a fellow prosecutor of a military court in the Polish capital. For liberal views, he was dismissed and ended his days in a clinic for the mentally ill. Savinkov's mother was a playwright and journalist.
The elder brother of the future Socialist-Revolutionary, Alexander, also chose the path of revolutionary struggle; he committed suicide in a distant exile. The younger brother, Victor, chose military service, and later was a journalist and artist. Boris also had two sisters - Vera and Sofia.
Education Boris Savinkov began to receive in one of the Warsaw gymnasiums. Then he entered St. Petersburg University, but was soon expelled from the student population for participating in unrest. For a short time Savinkov studied in Germany.
Revolutionary activity
Savinkov’s political career was eventful. In 1897, Boris was arrested in Warsaw, accusing him of revolutionary activity. In 1899 he was released. In the same year, Savinkov married the daughter of the writer Gleb Uspensky Vera. In this marriage, the couple had two children.
In 1901, Savinkov conducted active propaganda in the capital's Union of the struggle for the liberation of the working class. A number of Savinkov's works were published in the newspaper Rabochaya Mysl. However, he was soon arrested and sent to Vologda. Here he worked as a clerk at a local district court.
In the summer of 1903, Boris illegally left for Geneva. Here he joined the ranks of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (Socialist Revolutionaries). Savinkov actively participated in the battle organization of this party, took part in the preparation of several very high-profile terrorist acts in Russia. In particular, Boris Viktorovich proposed eliminating the priest Gapon, whom the Socialist-Revolutionaries suspected of close ties with the police.
For participating in the preparation of the murder of Admiral Chukhnin Savinkov was sentenced to death. However, he managed to escape to Romania, from where he moved to Germany.
In 1911, the militant organization of the Social Revolutionary Party was disbanded. Savinkov left for France and plunged into literary work. By this time he was already in a second marriage. In 1912, his wife, Lev, was born to his wife, Evgenia Zilberberg, who actively fought on the side of inter-brigades in Spain in the 30s.
Savinkov spent the years of the imperialist war in Paris, keenly feeling his political inaction.
