Oleksandr Sokolovskii Oleksandrovich

Aleksandr Sokolovsky was born in Konotop, which is now part of the Sumy region, and then was part of the Chernihiv province. His father was a minor official. While still studying at the Chernihiv Gymnasium, he joined the party of Socialist Revolutionaries, led workers' and students' groups. In 1914, he entered Kyiv University. A year later, he was sentenced to six years of hard labor for distributing anti-war proclamations. From 1915 to 1917 he was in exile. After the February Revolution, he was released from the Saratov penal prison and returned to Ukraine, where he joined revolutionary activities. In 1918, he was arrested by the Germans in Chernihiv, but he escaped from the concentration camp.

After the Civil War, he worked in the Union of Cooperators, in Ukrbank, was the secretary of the Kyiv branch of the Society of Political Workers and Forced Settlers, and later worked as a researcher at the Museum of the Revolution in Kyiv.

As a former SR, he was arrested by Cheka-DPU authorities in 1920 in Chernihiv and in 1924 in Kyiv. He was arrested for the last time on October 29, 1937. He was accused of allegedly joining an anti-Soviet organization in 1932, and in 1936 he was recruited into an anti-Soviet Ukrainian nationalist organization and headed a terrorist group aimed at the violent overthrow of Soviet power in Ukraine.

On August 22, 1938, the visiting session of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced Sokolovsky to death and was shot on the same day.

On July 18, 1957, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR canceled the sentence and closed the case due to the lack of a crime.

Creativity

Aleksandr Sokolovsky wrote novels, including "The First Brave" (1928), "New Weapon" (1932), "Doomed to Death" (1933) and the story "Rebels" (1934), dedicated to the activities of the revolutionary organization "Narodna Volya" . His historical novel Bogun was first published in 1931 and later republished in Munich in 1957 and in the Ukrainian SSR in 1964. A collection of Sokolovsky's works was published in two volumes in 1971.

He was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1934.

Edition after rehabilitation

"Heroes of conspiracies" - K.: Molod, 1959.

"Bogun" - 1970.