Boris Viktorovich Savinkov was a Russian revolutionary, writer, and politician. As a leading figure in the Socialist Revolutionary Party's (SR) Combat Organization, he was a key organizer of high-profile assassinations of tsarist officials, including that of Interior Minister Vyacheslav von Plehve in 1904 and Grand...
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Savinkov in the 1900s
Depiction of Vyacheslav von Plehve's assassination
Depiction of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich's assassination
Savinkov (center) with Alexander Kerensky (second from right) and the rest of the Russian war ministry, August 1917
Savinkov (left) with General Lavr Kornilov (centre) and his staff
Savinkov (standing on left) during his trial before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Tribunal of the Soviet Union, 1924Writers born in the 1870s 6
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Boris Viktorovich Savinkov was a Russian revolutionary, writer, and politician. As a leading figure in the Socialist Revolutionary Party's (SR) Combat Organization, he was a key organizer of high-profile assassinations of tsarist officials, including that of Interior Minister Vyacheslav von Plehve in 1904 and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich in 1905. Following the February Revolution of 1917, Savinkov served as Assistant Minister of War in the Russian Provisional Government. After the October Revolution, he became a prominent leader of armed resistance against the Bolsheviks, notably founding the Union for the Defense of the Motherland and Freedom.
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