Severin Tsezarevich Dobrovolsky was a Russian White emigre, who lived after the Russian Civil War as a political refugee in Finland.
15 Facts About Severin Dobrovolsky
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Severin Dobrovolsky participated in the activities of several white emigrant organizations and published pro-fascist Russian-language magazines.
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Severin Dobrovolsky was born into an aristocratic family in St Petersburg, but lived in Finland in his youth.
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Severin Dobrovolsky graduated as an officer from the Pskov Cadet School in 1899 and the Constantine Artillery School in 1902, and as a military judge from the Alexander Military Law Academy in 1909.
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Severin Dobrovolsky received the rank of Major General in Miller's army in January 1920, but soon afterwards the Whites were defeated, and he fled to Finland again and settled in Vyborg.
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Severin Dobrovolsky set up an information office in Vyborg, which collected information about the Soviet Union, and a network that smuggled anti-Soviet literature there.
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Severin Dobrovolsky acted as a correspondent for three foreign far-right Russian-language newspapers and toured among the Russian community in Finland on topics related to politics and culture.
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From 1921, Severin Dobrovolsky was the director of the Finnish branch of the Tsentr dejstvija, an organization founded by Nikolai Tchaikovsky, although he did not support the Tchaikovsky's Socialist Revolutionary Party.
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Severin Dobrovolsky was later responsible for the activities of the Russian National Fascist Organization in Finland.
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Severin Dobrovolsky himself was not a member of the Russian All-Military Union, but collaborated with his old superior, General Miller, who rose to become the head of the ROVS in 1930, and assisted the organization in its efforts to infiltrate agents into the Soviet Union.
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Between 1933 and 1935, Severin Dobrovolsky published an anti-Soviet and far-right magazine called Klitsh in Vyborg.
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Severin Dobrovolsky was the oldest of the extradited and most notable, and was generally considered the leader of anti-Bolshevik Russian immigrants in Finland.
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Severin Dobrovolsky denied being an agent of a foreign power, but pleaded guilty to other political crimes.
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Severin Dobrovolsky was sentenced to death on November 27,1945, by the Moscow District Court and executed on January 26 the following year.
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Severin Dobrovolsky's wife was the daughter of a Vyborg factory owner, Ksenia Pavlovna Ulyanova.