Ivan Lukyanovich Solonevich (russian: Ива́н Лукья́нович Солоне́вич, 13 November 1891,

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, Imperial Russia — 24 April 1953, Montevideo,

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) was a Russian philosopher, historian, writer, editor, publisher, publicist and conservative political activist. A member of the White movement during the

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and later of the anti-Soviet underground in

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, Solonevich was persecuted and jailed. He spent 1920s and early 1930s as a sports official, photographer and journalist, all the while looking for the opportunity to leave the country. After several failed attempts he finally succeeded in 1934 and spent the rest of his life in emigration, first in

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, Argentine (where he founded the newspaper ''Nasha Strana'', ''Our Country'') and

.Smolin, M.B. Ivan Solonevich. The Encyclopedia of Russian Imperial Thinking // Смолин М. Б. Энциклопедия имперской традиции русской мысли. — М.: Имперская традиция, 2005. — С. 303—325. — 448 с. — . Solonevich authored several acclaimed books on Russian monarchy (''The Assassins of the Tzar'', 1938; ''The Myth about Nicholas the Second'', 1949) and political repressions in the USSR (''Russia in Concentration Camp'', 1935). His best-known work is ''People's Monarchy'' (1951) in which he fully developed his doctrine of monarchy being the only viable and historically justified political system for Russia.Dragunsky, Deni
A Gentleman in the GULAG
// Джентльмен в ГУЛАГе. Иван Солоневич сказал правду о советских лагерях за 35 лет до Солженицына (Ivan Solonevich had Told the Truth About Soviet Labour Camps 35 Years Before Solzhenitsyn)

Bibliography

Translations

*Die Verlorenen. — 5. Auf. — Essen: Essener-Verlag, 1937. (German) *The Soviet Paradise Lost. — New York: The Paisley Press, Inc, 1938. (English) *Russia in Chains. — London: Williams and Norgate Ltd, 1938. (English) *Het "proletarische" paradijs Russland een concentratiekampf. — Den Haag: W. P. Van *Stockum & Zoon N. V, 1937. (Dutch) *Rosja w obozie koncentracyjnym. — Lwow: Nakladem Sekretariatu *Porozumiewawczego Polsckich Organizacyi Spolecznych we Lwowie, 1938. (Polish) *Rusko za mřížemi — Praha: Prapor Ruska, 1936. (Czech) * Russija u konclogoru / Urednik dr. J. Adric. — Zagreb: Knjiznica dobrich romana, 1937. * Иван Солоњевич. Народна монархиjа/Превод Зоран Буљīuћ. – Београд: Центар за изучавање Традициjе «Укрониjа», 2014 (Serbo-Croatian)

References

External links

The Works by Solonevich
at Lib.ru, the online Moshkov library
The Last Knight of the Empire
2014 film by Sergey Debizhev (YouTube, 1 h 20 min) {{DEFAULTSORT:Solonevich, Ivan 1891 births 1953 deaths People from Ciechanowiec People from Belsky Uyezd (Grodno Governorate) Russian nationalists Russian monarchists People of the Russian Civil War White movement people Soviet defectors White Russian emigrants to Germany 20th-century Russian journalists Burials at The British Cemetery Montevideo