Filistinsky Boris Andreevich

Genus. in 1905 in the city of Stavropol-Caucasus in the family of an officer, nephew of the academician-Mongolian S.A. Kozin; Russian; higher education: graduated from LIZHVYA in 1928, graduated from the Leningrad Evening Institute of Industrial Construction in 1936; b/p. He was first arrested in 1927 for 2 months for participating in the religious and philosophical circle of S.A. Askoldov (“Brotherhood of St. Seraphim of Sarov”). In 1936 he lived in Leningrad, responsible executive for technical planning of the Lenpromstroy trust; arrested 02/15/1936; sentenced by the Leningrad Regional Court on June 10, 1936 under Art. 58-10, 11 to 5 years of correctional labor camp. He served his sentence in Komi camps until 1941; upon his release he settled in Novgorod. During the Great Patriotic War, he headed the occupation police of Novgorod, published articles in the Novgorod newspaper “For the Motherland” (including about repressed figures of Russian culture), and at the same time did not disdain personal participation in mass destruction. At the end of the war he came to Germany, lived near Kassel near Munich, where his writing began. In 1950 he moved to the USA, a professor at a number of universities. Died in Washington in 1991. Rehabilitated in the 1936 case by the St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office on June 6, 1995.