Suvorin, Boris Alekseevich

The son of a famous journalist and publisher Alexei Suvorin in the second marriage ^[1] . Published the newspaper "Time" (Moscow), "Evening Time" , as well as "The Russko-Britanskoie Vremia" - the English-Russian industrial magazine and sports "Horse Sport" ^[2] . He headed the board of the society of publishers of the periodical press, which published “ All Petersburg ” and “ All Moscow ”.

I was the editor-in-chief of Noviye Vremya and the two most common evening newspapers of Petrograd and Moscow, Vecherny Vremya and Vremya. I was the chairman of the counterparty council on the railways of A. S. Suvorin & Co., who had up to 500 trains at my disposal. e. kiosks. Our partnership, in which I was one of the major shareholders and active members of the council, had two newspapers, three houses, two shops, two offices (both on Nevsky), a colorful factory, a printing house and the largest publishing business in Petrograd. I myself was separately engaged in publishing and had two magazines.

In Moscow we had a newspaper, Vremya, counterparty g. d. and bookstore. In addition, we had bookstores in Saratov (two), in Rostov-on-Don, in Kharkov, and in Odessa. And, finally, a paper mill in the Cherepovetsky district of Novgorod province. ^[2]

- Boris Suvorin. "For the Motherland". Xx. From the attic to the basement.

In World War I served as a telephonist.

After the revolution, like most Russian entrepreneurs, he lost all property and money, not having savings in foreign currency.

In the Civil War - in the Volunteer Army , arriving in the Don at the invitation of General Alekseev ^[2] , to become the head of the anti-Bolshevik newspaper. Member of the First Kuban campaign . In the campaign published the “Field Leaf of the Volunteer Army” (3 issues). After returning from a hike in June, he bought a printing house in Novocherkassk in partnership with several partners, was engaged in book publishing activities, publishing a book by P. N. Krasnov “Step”. Published and edited the newspaper "Evening Time" (Novocherkassk, Rostov, Novorossiysk, Feodosiya, Simferopol 1918-1920), originally opened with the money of General Alekseev, with a circulation of 4,000 in 1918. With the growing popularity of the newspaper, the staff, initially consisting of random people, was expanding: Colonel Patronov, Dr. E .; later they were joined by former employees of the New Times Shtiglits, Ostrog and Vesenev, who made their way to the Don through the Bolshevik cordons. Despite the competition of local publications such as the Don Region and the Priazovsky Region, the newspaper’s circulation in 1919 is already 20,000. Suvorin attempted to publish newspapers also in Kursk and Kharkov during the period of the greatest success of the Volunteer Army and, during its retreat, in Izium Belgorod, Slavyansk, but these projects were short-lived for reasons beyond his control.

During the evacuation from Rostov-on-Don, their headquarters, Suvorin and the editorial staff were left by order of the garrison chief to issue the next issue of their newspaper and were evacuated among the last ones on the train by General Kutepov, leaving all the property and the archive in the city.

On January 4, we were in Novorossiysk and 9th was Evening Time.

... Among all the hardships, I am proud that I never lost heart.

- ^[2]

In October 1920, he went on a business trip to Paris, considering that the Russian army is not in danger. Suvorin's wife joined him a month later, after the army was evacuated from the Crimea.

Since 1920 - in exile in Paris, then in Shanghai. He edited the newspaper "Evening Time" (1924-1925), "Russian Time" (1925-1929), "Shanghai Dawn" (Shanghai, 1928-1929), "Time" (Shanghai, 1929-1932). Wrote memories of the civil war and two novels.

In 1933 he returned to France.

• Over the Motherland: the heroic era of the Volunteer Army of 1917-1918. : impressions of the journalist. - Paris, 1922.
• Pheasant. - Paris, 1927. - The novel.
• Baron - 1932. - A novel dedicated to the personality of Roman Fedorovich Ungern von Sternberg.

• Unforgotten graves. Russian foreign countries: obituaries 1917-1997. In 6 volumes. - T. 6. Kn. 2. Skr. —F. - M .: "Pashkov House", 1999. - p. 240.