Boris Savinkov
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Boris Savinkov
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Boris Viktorovich Savinkov January 19, 1879 Kharkiv |
| Died | 7 May 1925 (aged 46) Moscow |
| Cause of death | defenestration (murder or suicide) |
| Education | St. Petersburg University, Heidelberg University |
| Occupation | Assistant War Minister in Provisional Government |
| Organization | Fighting Organisation |
| Notable work | Memoirs of a Terrorist, The Pale Horse |
| Political party | Socialist Revolutionary Party |
Boris Viktorovich Savinkov (Russian: Бори́с Ви́кторович Са́винков; 19 January 1879 – 7 May 1925) was a Russian writer and revolutionary. As one of the leaders of the Fighting Organisation of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, he was responsible for the assassinations of several high-ranking imperial officials in 1904 and 1905.
After the February Revolution of 1917, he became Assistant War Minister in the Provisional Government. After the October Revolution of the same year, he organized armed resistance against the ruling Bolsheviks. Savinkov emigrated in 1920, but in 1924 he was lured back to the Soviet Union, was arrested and either was killed in prison or committed suicide.
Savinkov was born in Kharkov (Kharkiv), the son of a judge in Warsaw. In 1897 he entered the law department of St. Petersburg University but was expelled in 1899 because of participation in students' riots. Later he studied in Berlin and Heidelberg. Since 1898 he was a member of various socialist organizations. In 1901 he was arrested and sent to exile to Vologda. He served the exile with some prominent Russian intellectuals including Nikolai Berdyaev and Anatoly Lunacharsky. However he became disappointed with Marxism and shifted to terrorism. In 1903 Savinkov escaped abroad and joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party, where he soon became Deputy Head of its Combat Organization under Yevno Azef.
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