Solonevich Boris Lukyanovich

Genus. in 1898 in the village of Rudniki, Pruzhany district, Grodno province; Belarusian; Higher education: physical education doctor; b/n, monarchist. Since 1912 in the scout movement, senior scoutmaster and assistant chief of scouts in Russia; athlete: weightlifting, jiu-jitsu, boxing, sport shooting from a combat rifle. In November 1920 he was evacuated to Constantinople, but soon returned to Crimea, where he continued his scouting activities and worked for the American Red Cross. After 1921 in Odessa, he was arrested by the Odessa Cheka and released. Graduated from the Physical Education Institute, physical education doctor. Worked in sports organizations in Sevastopol and Moscow. Arrested on June 2, 1926 in connection with scouting activities; sentenced by the Kogpu on September 20, 1926 to 8 (according to other sources, 5) years SLON (served at the Dynamo sports station); due to a progressive eye disease, by the resolution of the Kogpu dated May 14, 1928, he was commissioned and sent into exile in Tomsk for 3 years, then to Orel. In September 1932 he lived in Orel, worked as a shooting instructor in the regional transport department of OSOAVIAKHIM; together with his wife, brother and nephew, he tried to escape from the country through Karelia to Finland, but this attempt failed. The next attempt took place in September 1933; he was arrested along with all the participants in the escape on 09/09/1933; sentenced by the Troika PP of the OGPU to the Leningrad Military District on November 28, 1933 under Art. 58-6, 10 to 8 years of correctional labor camp. He served in the Podporozhye branch of the BBK, then in Svirlag (Lodeynoye Pole) as the head of the medical unit. 07/28/1934 escaped from Lodeynoye Pole to Finland simultaneously, by agreement, with his brother and nephew, who were in the camp in Medvezhya Gora. Later he lived in Bulgaria, Germany, Belgium. He actively participated in the literary and political life of the Russian emigration. Author of the books “Youth and the GPU” (Sofia, 1937), “Doctor’s Day in a Concentration Camp” (Sofia, 1938), “The Secret of the Old Monastery” (Brussels, 1941), “The Hand of the Admiral” (Berlin, 1942), “The Mystery of the Solovki” (Berlin, 1942), etc. After the war, he was arrested in Belgium on charges of collaboration. In January 1946, for publishing his novels in Berlin, he was convicted by a military court in Brussels, sentenced to 1 year in prison (released after 4 weeks) and deprived of civil rights. In 1948, the court of honor expelled him from the Mutual Aid Society of Russian DPs. In connection with his literary activities, he was re-arrested and convicted in Brussels in 1955 (3 months in prison). He died on 02/24/1989 in the Glen Cove nursing home on Long Island (New York), and was buried in the Russian cemetery in Novo-Diveevo. Rehabilitated in the 1926 case by the Presidium of the Moscow City Court on March 30, 1964; in the case of 1933 - VP LVO 07/20/1989.