Brazol, Boris Lvovich

Origin

Born in Poltava , came from an old noble family, coming from the Cossacks . In 1736, Vasily Trofimovich Brazol (1723–?), The iconic comrade of the Hadiak regiment, was granted salaries to the villages in the present Akhtyrka region ^[3] , and the family of local landowners Brasole went from it.

The father is a physician and homeopath (1854–1927), a graduate of the Kharkiv male gymnasium and the St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy in exile in France .

Mother - artist Julia N. Brazol (Dobroselskaya) (1856 -?), In the second marriage Leontiev.

The elder brother is Yevgeny L'vovich Brasol (August 9, 1882 —?), A graduate of the Law School (1906), the Ahtyrsky district leader of the nobility, an honorary magistrate and a member of the district council, a leader of the right movement. During the Civil War - Ensign Life Guards Cuirassier Regiment . In emigration to Yugoslavia ( Novi Sad ), an employee of the newspaper "Russian banner".

Uncle (father's brother) - Sergey Evgenievich Brazol (1851—?), Nobleman of the Poltava province , a member of the State Council .

Paternal grandfather - Evgeny Grigorievich Brazol (1799–1879), leader of the Poltava nobility in 1844–46.

Paternal great-grandfather - Grigori Vasilievich Brazol (1761–?), Chairman of the criminal court of the Yekaterinoslav province .

Early years

He graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg University . The university was the secretary of the “Circle of Political Economy” under the direction of V. V. Svyatlovsky ^[4] . His report “An Essay on Factory Law in Australia” was published in the Knowledge Bulletin (1905, No. 6). In 1904-1905 was a steadfast Marxist and Bolshevik ^[5] . After graduation, he was accepted to serve in the Ministry of Justice. In 1912 he was sent to Lausanne to study the latest scientific achievements in forensic science. He was fond of literature and theater, wrote theater reviews.

In 1911, while working at the Ministry of Justice, he participated in the preparation of the prosecution for the famous " Beilis case " ^{[6] [7]} .

World War I

In World War I, Brasol was drafted into the army and fought on the Southwestern Front . In May 1916, he was sent to the United States as a legal adviser to the Russian Procurement Committee. As a military investigator for particularly important cases, Brazol was sent to the United States along with General A. P. Zalyubovsky to investigate the rumors of abuse in foreign procurement. Zalyubovsky characterized Brazol: “a talented lawyer who was fluent in English, investigator by vocation”. The investigation, however, showed that although there were some irregularities in the conduct of business, bad faith or abuse was not detected ^[8] .

After the October Revolution remained in the United States.

Activities in emigration

Brasol became an influential lawyer in the United States and worked in the Department of Justice. US Attorney General Palmer used him as an expert on Russian radicalism ^[6] . Consisted member of the Criminological Commission of the School of Law at Columbia University ^[9] .

In 1933, there was a lawsuit in the United States in the case of money in the accounts of the Voluntary Fleet in the United States. The Soviet government tried to get this money, which was the subject of a trial, in which Brazol acted as an expert witness.

Brasol also founded the Society of Russian Culture. A.S. Pushkin in America , which he headed for 27 years ^[10] . He was a member of the Union for the protection of the purity of the Russian language , and in 1957, spoke in Paris at meetings of the Union. He sent his works for the Paris libraries ^[11] .

In the list of archbishops , clergymen and parishes of the ROCA for 1955, Brazol is mentioned as a trostist (member of the board of trustees) of the Eastern American and Jerseisite Diocese of the ROCOR and the Legal Counsel of the ROCA North American and Canadian Diocese ^[12] .

A number of documents written by him, Brasol donated to the Library of Congress on the condition that they would not be open until 1953 . There was a scandal around these documents related to the desire of the FBI director John Edgar Hoover to access them before the expiration of the specified period ^[13] .

Anti-Semitism and Nazi Support

According to the French historian of anti-Semitism, Leon Polyakov , Brazol was the author of the Bolshevism and Judaism report dated November 30, 1918, which is in the archives of the US State Department . This report contained the following two points:

• The decision to overthrow the tsarist government was made on February 14, 1916 in the Jewish quarter of New York by a group of revolutionaries led by banker Jacob Schiff .
• A list of 33 names of the leaders of Russia, where everyone except Lenin was Jewish.

The report used, as Polyakov put it, “a fake of the second degree” - a specially revised text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion , which stated that the Jews “are able to stop any uprising of the goyim with American, Chinese and Japanese cannons”. The archives of the State Department have kept many falsified documents, designed to give authenticity to this report ^[14] .

Brasol was a member of the European radical rightist group Aufbau Vereinigung , consisting of Russian émigrés and German national socialists, and worked in the anti-Semitic newspaper Dearborn Independent, which was owned by American industrialist Henry Ford ^[15] . Brazol was proud of his anti-Semitic convictions and claimed that he wrote “books that will bring more evil to the Jews than dozens of pogroms” ^{[6] [7]} . American historian Michael Kellogg writes that Ford transferred money through Brasol to support the Nazis in Germany ^[16] , he also mediated the transfer of money from Ford to the Russian Grand Duke Cyril . In 1938, already under the Nazi regime, Brazol, who had American citizenship by that time, secretly helped organize the Anti-Comintern Congress in Germany with the support of the German secret police, the Gestapo, and the SS. Interest in Brasol in August 1938 showed Heinrich Himmler, and he even asked Heinrich Muller to make a report on the previous activities of the white emigration ^[17] .

A number of authors claim that Brazol translated the Protocols of the Elders of Zion into English and took an active part in the preparation of the book “ International Jewry ” ^{[18] [19]} . However, Michael Barkun , also referring to Ribaffo’s denial, argues that Brazol was not involved in compiling the book International Jewry ^[20] .

Books and brochures

• Female silhouettes in Russian literature (St. Petersburg, 1907).
• Critical facets. SPb., Type. "Spring", 1910.
• Essays on the investigative part: History. Practice. Petrograd: State. type., 1916.
• Socialism vs.Civilization. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. - “Socialism versus Civilization”.
• The world at the cross roads . Boris Brasol. London, Hutchinson. 1921.
  • Russian edition - The world at the crossroads. All-Slavic bookstore Belgrade, 1922.
• The balance sheet of sovietism . Boris Brasol. New York. Duffield. 1922.
• Elements of Crime (Psycho-Social Interpretation). Oxford University Press , 1927.
• The motives of the Russian religious and philosophical consciousness. New York, 1930.
• The Mighty Three. Poushkin - Gogol - Dostoievsky. New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1934.
• Speech delivered by B. L. Brazole, Chairman of the Pushkin Committee in America, at a solemn meeting dedicated to the memory of A. S. Pushkin, January 24, 1937, at International House in New York. New York, ed. Pushkin Committee in America, 1937. 10 p.
• Oscar Wilde: the Man, the Artist, the Martyr. Scribner's Sons. 1938
• Speech T. 1. New York, ed. Society them. A.S. Pushkin, 1943. <Including: "Pushkin" (1937) and "The Bronze Horseman" (1937)>.
• Pushkin and Russia. Speech at a solemn meeting dedicated to the memory of A. S. Pushkin on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth and held on April 17, 1949 in the mountains. New York. New York, ed. Society them. A.S. Pushkin, 1949. 14 p.
• A.S. Pushkin's Word Creativity. New York, ed. Society them. A.S. Pushkin, 1950. 10 p.
• Speech T. 2. New York, ed. Society them. A.S. Pushkin, 1953. <Including: "Pushkin and Russia" (1949)>.
• Gogol's Mental Drama (1952).
• Pushing versatility in Russian language (Philological reference). New York, ed. Society them. A.S. Pushkin, 1955. 19 p.
• The reign of Emperor Nicholas II in facts and figures (1894-1917). New York: Executive Bureau of the All-Russian Monarchist Front, 1959.

Translations

• FM Dostoevsky, The Diary of a Writer, translated by Boris Brasol. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949
• Feodor M. Dostoievsky. The Diary of a Writer. Translated by Boris Brasol. New York: George Braziller, 1954

Articles

• Foundations of Criminology. Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. Vol. 17, No. 1 (May, 1926), pp. 13-39.
• Institute of Scientific Criminology. The American Journal of Police Science. Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1930), pp. 100-106
• From Pushkin's Lyrics. Russian Review. Vol. 8, No. 3 (Jul., 1949), pp. 201—204
• From Pushkin's Poems. Russian Review. Vol. 10, No. 3 (Jul., 1951), pp. 197–198
• From Pushkin's Poems. Russian Review, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan., 1953), pp. 40-41
• VI Dahl-Immortal Russian Lexicographer. Russian Review, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Apr., 1964), pp. 116-130

• Pushkinian Russian emigre (1945-1980-ies.)

• Michael Kellogg. Émigrés of the Russian Roots of Nazism and the Making of National Socialism, 1917–1945 . - Cambridge University Press , 2008. - 344 p. - (New Studies in European History). - ISBN 9780521070058 .