Ivan Lukyanovich Solonevich

Ivan Lukjanowitsch Solonewitsch (also Solonevič, Russian Иван Лукьянович Солоневич * 13. November 1891 in Grodno , Russian Empire ; † 27. April 1953 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) was a Russian author , Soviet sports official and Gulag -Häftling.

Life

Solonevich graduated from high school in Vilnius and then studied law at the University of Saint Petersburg . He finished his studies in the revolutionary years to work as a journalist.

With his books Im Feuerofen and Die Verloren he describes a failed attempt to escape because of treason with his son Georg and brother Boris from the Soviet Union, the life following the arrest in various camps, including on the White Sea-Baltic Canal , and ultimately for all three successful escape through Karelia to Finland in 1934.

His wife Tamara Solonewitsch (1894–1938), who was able to leave the Soviet Union in 1932, and his brother Boris Solonewitsch (1898–1989), who fled with him, also worked as authors abroad.

Works

• The lost . A chronicle of nameless suffering. 2 volumes. Essen Publishing House, Essen 1937.

Volume 1: Russia in the Forced Labor Camp -1933. Reprinted as a facsimile print under the title "Im Feuerofen - Im Zwangsarbeitslager 1933" in the publishing house for holistic research and culture , Wobbenbüll 1982, ISBN 3922314201 . Apabiz.de assigns the publisher to the Ludendorffers .

Volume 2: Escape from the Soviet Paradise - 1934. Reprint as facsimile print in the publishing house for holistic research and culture , Wobbenbüll 1985, ISBN 3-922314-46-5 .

• Through Karelia's forests and swamps . Essen Publishing House, Essen 1938.
• England, "friend of the free peoples" . Drawings v. Solo (d. I. Jurij Ivanovič Solonevič) single u. ext. v. Rudolf Wille. Klieber, Berlin 1940.

Works by family members

From Boris Solonevich:

• Living dust - Russia's youth fighting the GPU. Essener Verlagsanstalt 1938. Excerpt under the title In the fight against the GPU . Fischer, Berlin 1941.
• Children in arms . Europa-Verlag Berlin W 35, Rauchstr. 27, Deutsche Informationsstelle, Berlin 1941. Series of Informationsschriften
• Solovki's Secret First and only novel about contemporary Russian youth in the USSR . Self-published, Brussels 1944.

From Tamara V. Solonevich:

• Behind the scenes of the Soviet propaganda. Experiences of a Soviet interpreter . Translation from Russian by IP Slobodjanik, Essener Verlags-Anstalt, Essen 1938.
• Three years with the Berlin Soviet trade agency . Translated from the Russian by IP Slobodjanik, Essen 1937.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ivan L. Solonevič in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography - Iwan Lukjanowitsch Solonewitsch (1891–1953) (Russian)
2. ^ Matthias Heeke: Journeys to the Soviets: foreign tourism in Russia 1921–1941 , LIT Verlag Münster, 2003, p. 484.
3. ↑ http://www.apabiz.de/archiv/material/Profile/VGFK.htm