Trial of Savinkov. 1924.

Trial of Savinkov. 1924.
Leningrad. Edition "Kubuch". 1924 110 p. Publishing paperback, size 14 x 19 cm. Good condition without loss and marks, restoration of the cover. 

Boris Viktorovich Savinkov (19 [31] in January 1879, Kharkov — may 7, 1925, Moscow) — revolutionary, terrorist, Russian politician, one of the leaders of the socialist revolutionary party, the head of the Fighting organization of the socialist revolutionary party. Member of the White movement, writer (novelist, poet, publicist, memoirist, literary pseudonym — V. Ropshin).

Also known under the alias "B. N.", Benjamin, Halley James, Kramer, Kasinski, Pavel Ivanovich, Kind Leon, Subbotin D. E., Current, Rene, Tomashevich Adolf Konstantin Chernetsky.

In early August 1924, Savinkov illegally arrived in the USSR, where he was lured as a result of the operation "Syndicate-2"developed by the OGPU. On 16 August in Minsk, was arrested along with his mistress Love Efimovna Dickhoff and her husband A. A. Dichotom. At the trial Savinkov admitted his guilt and defeat in the fight against Soviet power. He started his testimony like this:

I, Boris Savinkov, a former member of the Combat organization of the party of socialist revolutionaries, a friend and comrade of Yegor Sozonov and Ivan Kalyaev, a participant in the murders of plev, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, a participant in many terrorist acts, a man who worked all his life only for the people, in his name, am now accused of working and peasant power that went against Russian workers and peasants with weapons in their hands.

The military Board of the Supreme court of the USSR on August 29, 1924 sentenced him to capital punishment — execution. The Supreme court petitioned the Presidium of the CEC of the USSR to commute the sentence. The petition was granted, the execution was replaced by imprisonment for 10 years.

In prison Savinkov had the opportunity to engage in literary work, according to some data had hotel conditions. At this time he wrote:

After a hard and long bloody struggle with you, a struggle in which I have done perhaps more than many others, I tell you: I come here and declare without coercion, freely, not because they stand with a rifle behind their back: I recognize unconditionally the Soviet power and no other.

Savinkov wrote and sent letters to some leaders of the white emigration calling to stop the fight against the Soviet Union.

According to the official version, on may 7, 1925 in the building of the Cheka on Lubyanka Savinkov committed suicide. Having used absence of a window lattice in the room where it was on return from walk, Boris Savinkov jumped out of a window of the fifth floor in the yard.

In the book E. A. Kochemirovsky "50 famous suicides" provides an account of a direct witness of the death of Savinkov V. I. Speransky:

The room was Savinkov, T. Syroezhkin and T. Pozycki, the last of the room for a while went out. I looked at my watch — it was 23 hours and 20 minutes, and at this very moment by the window he heard a noise, something very quickly flashed in the window, I jumped off the couch and in the yard was heard like a gunshot. Before me flashed pale face T. Puzitsky and somewhat confused face T. syroezhkina, standing at the window. T. Pozicky shouted: "He jumped out the window... I need the alarm..." and with these words she rushed from the room…

However, there is a version according to which Savinkov was killed by the GPU (this version, in particular, leads the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his book "the GULAG Archipelago").

The burial place of Savinkov is unknown.