Yury Bezsonov

Georgy Dmitrievich Bezsonov, variant: Yury Dmitrievich Bezsonov (Безсонов, Георгий/Юрий Дмитриевич)) (1891-1950) was a Russian Imperial Army cavalry officer, known for his memoir about the Soviet Solovki prison camp and his escape from there.[1] He was born in St. Petersburg Russia in 1891 and died in Paris France in 1950. More information about him can be found on the Russian database http://swolkov.org/info1.htm .

He escaped from Solovki prison camp in 1925, together with four other inmates: Matvey Sazonov, Ingush Sozerko Malsagov, Pole Eduard Malbrodsky and Vasily Pribludin. Malsagov also wrote a similar memoir.

Memoir

Двадцать шесть тюрем и побег с Соловков[2]

References

  1. ↑ ЮРИЙ БЕЗСОНОВ, БЕЖАВШИЙ ИЗ СОЛОВКОВ
  2. ↑ Безсонов, Двадцать шесть тюрем и побег из Соловков, Paris, Imprimerie de Navarre, 1928.
    • English translation: Bessonov, J.D. (1929). My Twenty-six Prisons and my Escape from Solovetsky. London: Jonathan Cape. (at Internet Archive)
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