Boris Viktorovič Savinkov Papers

Period (1904-1905) 1917-1924
Total size   0.75 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Full name: Boris Viktorovič Savinkov; pseudonym: V. Ropšin; born in Charkiv, Russia 1879, died in Lubjanka Prison, Moscow 1925; one of the leaders of the Partija Socialistov-Revoljucionerov (PSR); writer; studied law in St. Petersburg; became a member of the PSR Battle Organization in 1903; joined the French army as a volunteer in the First World War; returned to Russia in April 1917 and made a rapid military career, becoming Assistant War Minister under A.F. Kerenskij; was expelled from the PSR because of his role in the L. Kornilov uprising; organized various uprisings against the Bolsheviks; formed in 1921 together with his friend Aleksandr A. Dickhoff-Daerenthal the Narodnyj sojuz zaščity rodiny i svobody, based in Paris; was arrested at the Russian border in 1924 and committed suicide under obscure circumstances.

Content

Collection relating to the Russian Civil War and Savinkov's role in it. Letters/memoranda exchanged between Savinkov and Jósef Pilsudski, the Kolčak government, Nikolaj V. Čajkovskij and others; memoranda sent by Savinkov to Winston Churchill and others; articles by Savinkov; biographical materials relating to Savinkov; documents of the Russian Political Committee in Poland and the Narodnyj sojuz zaščity rodiny i svobody; financial and other records of `Union', Bureau de Presse Russe; memoranda on the problem of nationalities; reports, notes, articles, memoirs by various persons; printed and processed material. Papers of Aleksandr A. Dickhoff-Daerenthal: letters received by him, notes, manuscripts and personal documents, documents on his military mission in Latvia and Estonia in 1920.

Arrangement

A first list of the papers in Russian was problaby made by Boris Sapir in the 1960s; this list was edited and translated in English by Hermien van Veen in 2007; on the basis of this list a complete new and more detailed inventory was made by Benjamin Guichard in April 2011.

Processing information

Inventory by Benjamin Guichard in 2011