Borís Sávinkov

Borís Sávinkov

Borís Víktorovich Sávinkov (in Russian, Бори́с Ви́кторович Са́винков; Kharkiv, January 19, 1879 - May 7, 1925), Russian writer and revolutionary, one of the leaders of the «Organization of Combat» of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, responsible for the most spectacular assassinations of imperial officials in 1904 and 1905, events he recounted in his novel The Yellow Horse, written in Paris in 1909.

Adventurer, mason, spiritualist, terrorist and trickster, conspirator and obsessed with violence, he was born into a noble family in 1879. He joined various political causes: Polish socialism, revolutionary socialism, the Union for the Regeneration of the Fatherland and Liberty (anti-Bolshevik organization) and Italian fascism.