Nikolaevsky Boris Ivanovich

Genus. in 1887 in the town of Belebey, Ufa province, in the family of a priest; Russian; studied at the Samara gymnasium; since 1901 - member of the RSDLP (m); until 1917 he was arrested 8 times, escaped from prison, 3 times was exiled. In 1913–1914 he worked for the legal Rabochaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg. In March 1917, while in exile in Krasnoyarsk, he headed the Committee of Public Security there. In 1918–1920, as a representative of the Central Committee of the Mensheviks, he traveled around the country with instructions from the party, from 1920 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Menshevik Party. He was arrested in February 1921, along with other members of the Menshevik Central Committee, and after 11 months of imprisonment, he was expelled from the country. In exile (in Germany, France, since 1940 - in the USA) he continued to take an active part in the political activities of the Menshevik Party. On February 20, 1932, together with the Trotsky family and a number of other emigrants, he was deprived of Soviet citizenship. Throughout his life he collected and stored archival materials, took part in the study of the archives of the Police Department. The Nikolayevsky collection (over 800 boxes of archival materials) is stored in the USA at the Hoover Institution (Stanford, California), whose director is B.N. was until his death. Died in USA in 1966, buried in Menlo Park (California)