13 Facts About Boris Savinkov

Boris Viktorovich Savinkov was a Russian writer and revolutionary.

Boris Savinkov was later the Assistant Minister of War in the Provisional Government.

Boris Savinkov was either killed in prison or committed suicide.

In 1903, Boris Savinkov escaped to Geneva and joined the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party, where he soon became Deputy Head of its Combat Organization under Yevno Azef.

Boris Savinkov returned to France after these uprisings were crushed by the Red Army.

Boris Savinkov was an acquaintance of Sidney Reilly, the legendary renegade British agent, and was involved in a number of counter-revolutionary plots against the Bolsheviks, sometimes collaborating with the British Secret Intelligence Service.

Boris Savinkov was lured into the USSR to meet with false conspirators and was consequently arrested.

However, according to modern publications by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and others, Boris Savinkov was killed in prison by OGPU officers.

Boris Savinkov's face was startling because of his Mongolian cheekbones and his eyes, now sad, now extremely cruel; he often closed them, and his lids were heavy.

Boris Savinkov turned to writing mediocre novels revealing the inner emptiness of a terrorist who has lost faith in his cause.

Boris Savinkov admired Benito Mussolini, praising his nationalist and anti-Communist policies and meeting personally with him several times with the hope of gaining Italian support in his counter-revolutionary plots.

Boris Savinkov believed that Fascist Italy was fundamentally democratic as it derived its support from the Italian peasantry.

Boris Savinkov's works raised huge controversy among the SRs, and many of them were disclaimed as "spoofs" on terrorism.