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A brilliant examination of the enigmatic Russian revolutionary about whom Winston Churchill said "few men tried more, gave more, dared more and suffered more for the Russian people," and who remains a legendary and controversial figure in his homeland today. Although now largely forgotten outside Russia, Boris Savinkov was famous, and notorious, both at home and abroad during his lifetime, which spans the end of the Russian Empire and the establishment of the Soviet Union. A complex and conflicted individual, he was a paradoxically moral revolutionary terrorist, a scandalous novelist, a friend of epoch-defining artists like Modigliani and Diego Rivera, a government minister, a tireless fight...
Boris Viktorovich Savinkov (1879-1925) was a Russian writer and revolutionary terrorist. He was one of the leaders of the Fighting Organisation of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.
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In this gripping novel, Boris Savinkov, a revolutionary and terrorist, delves into the dark underbelly of early 20th-century Russia. Through the eyes of George, a member of a terrorist organization, Savinkov explores the moral ambiguity and psychological turmoil of those who resort to violence in the name of political change. As George grapples with his conscience and the consequences of his actions, the reader is taken on a haunting journey through the shadows of a nation on the brink of upheaval.
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Translated by Michael R. Katz Translation of a Russian novel, providing a fictionalized account of the assassination of grand duke Sergei Alexandrovich, written by the leader of the terrorist cell who actually organized the real murder.