The biography of Volkhovsky

Also, the portal “Who was born in Poltava” indicates another spelling of the surname - in addition to “Volkhovsky”, the “Volkhov” biography of Felix Volkhovsky was used from the noble family, which came from the Poltava region. His childhood passed at Novgorod, studying at Moscow University, became one of the organizers along with G. Lopatin of the “Rublevsky society” to study the life of peasants, increase their literacy and exercise revolutionary propaganda.

Then he took up revolutionary activities, for which he was held accountable-in the Karakozov case, the attempt on April 4 on the Russian Emperor Alexander II, prepared by the “Ishutins”, and according to the process of “ruble society”. In the year he was again arrested and placed in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg E. was convicted of the year in the “Nechaevs case”, but then justified.

In the beginning of the X entered the circle of "Tchaikovites" and stood at the head of the Odessa group. Again arrested in the year, by the “process x”, participants in “Walking to the People” and in January of the year was deprived of all rights, estates and forever exiled to Siberia to a settlement in the Tobolsk province. In prisons, he partially lost his hearing. While he was in prison, his wife and child died.

In exile, he originally lived in Tyukalinsk, the Tobolsk province, where he mined funds for life exclusively with physical labor. In the year, Felix Volkhovsky received permission to live in Tomsk. Here, from August to March, he actively worked in the local press, an employee of the Siberian Life newspaper, published under the pseudonym Ivan Brutus. In the year, Volkhovsky published his bold fairy tale “Night for the New Year”.

Released by a separate brochure, it was prohibited by censorship in ... seven years. The collection of works of the works of Siberian poets about the native land “Echoes of Siberia” also deserves attention to Volkhovsky Ivan Brut. Ed. In and met in Tomsk with the American adventurer and writer George Kennan Kennan, George, the future author of the sensational book “Siberia and Link” “Siberia and the Exile System”: N.

In Tomsk, he once again survived the personal drama: on December 7, his second wife was shot down - Alexander Sergeyevna, nee, nee neating Khorzhevskaya, mother of three children, a famous Russian revolutionary-people.

Their three -year -old daughter Katya died in. In the year, F. Volkhovsky was expelled from Tomsk to Irkutsk for the feuilleton, from where he moved to Transbaikalia - first he lived in Chita, then in Kyakhta. He moved from the United States to the UK. Here, in London E, he became one of the leaders of the “Society of Friends of Russian Freedom” and the “Foundation of Free Russian Press”, became one of the editors of the newspaper in English “Free Russia” and Russian “Flying Leaflets”.

He wrote brochures, gave lectures on the Russian revolutionary movement. In the last period of his life, he joined the Socialist -Revolutionaries. Kona et al. Figner, Vera. Volume 3.