Rar, Lev Alexandrovich

Lev Aleksandrovich Rar came from a merchant family of Scandinavian origin, ^{[ specify ]} relating to the estate of Hereditary honorary citizens of the Russian Empire .

His father, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Rar (1885-1952), fought on the Galician front during World War I with the rank of lieutenant in the 3rd Grenadier Artillery Brigade. The October Revolution found him in the infirmary, after which he, as an officer , was interned in the first Moscow concentration camp in the Andronikov Monastery .

Mother L. A. Rara, Elizabeth Lvovna Gauthier-Dufaye (Dufayer dit Gautier) (1890-1920), came from a merchant family of French origin. Her father, Lev Vladimirovich Gauthier-Dufaye (1856-1912), brother of the famous Moscow scholar E.V. Gauthier-Dufaye , was a major industrialist and iron merchant, led the trading house “L. V. Gautier ”, was a member of the Moscow branch of the Council of Trade and Manufactures, chairman of the Tersky Mining Joint-Stock Company. In 1895, he founded the Tula Metallurgical Company. In 1898, he built a mansion for his family in Mashkovsky Lane No. 3, in which Lev Rar was born and which now houses the Latvian Embassy in Moscow .

After the death of Elizabeth Lvovna A. A. Rar in 1921 married Natalya Sergeyevna Yudina (1897-1980), the sister of the famous surgeon S. S. Yudin .

Since the ancestors of the Rars came from the island of Ezel , the family in 1924 as a "class enemy" was evicted to become independent Estonia after the revolution, but soon moved to Libau in Latvia . Here Rahr graduated from a German gymnasium . In 1929-1930, he was a member of the "Brotherhood of Russian Truth . " After two years of teaching, he graduated from the engineering department of the University of Riga and worked as an engineer in a Latvian company.

On September 19, 1939 he in Riga married Lyudmila Nikolaevna Pavlovskaya (September 5 (18), 1913, St. Petersburg - June 5, 1991, London ), the daughter of a professor at St. Petersburg University .

After Latvia joined the USSR in 1940, Rahr in 1941 on one of the last German ships managed to escape to Germany . In 1942, Rar returned to Riga , where he began to cooperate with the National Labor Union (now the People’s Labor Union of Russian Solidarists, NTS) and saved hundreds of Russian children orphaned in connection with punitive actions by SS men in Belarus. In 1944, when he returned to Germany, he joined the Russian Liberation Movement , becoming the head of the administrative department of KONR , where he worked with Colonel K. G. Kromiadi . Rahr participated in the development of the 1944 Prague Manifesto .

Since 1945, he headed the Roosevelt camps for displaced people in Lehrte and the Colorado camps in Lemgo , in the British zone of German occupation, where he published the shoots magazine. Together with other NTS members, he saved Russian refugees from forced repatriation .

Since 1948, he worked at the Russian BBC Radio service in London and headed the local department of the NTS. In 1952, he published the Russian newspaper in London. Since 1954, he worked in Frankfurt in the NTS system. From 1955 until his death he was a member of the Executive Bureau of the Council of the STC. In 1957, Rahr organized the work of the Hague Congress "For the Rights and Freedom of Russia." In 1959-1961, while living in Paris, he was the first chairman of the newly created "Office of the Foreign Department of the NTS." For many years he worked in the closed sector of the NTS. In 1966-1967, he headed the “Free Russia Fund”. In the years 1971-1974 he was the editor-in-chief of the journal "Sowing" , from 1976 until the death he headed the publishing house "Sowing".

In 1980, he was supposed to return to London to head the department and the operational section of the NTS, but on September 7, 1980 near Cologne he was in a car accident, the consequences of which he died on November 8, 1980 in a hospital in Cologne ; buried in London, next to his wife and father.

Children L.A. and L.N. Rahr, George (April 26, 1941, Lubts - September 3, 2014, Johannesburg ) and Elizabeth (born January 27, 1951, London ), after the death of their parents, moved from London to Johannesburg (South Africa), where they actively participated in the creation and life of the local Russian Orthodox Church. Elizabeth in her house arranged a reception with the Chairman of the DECR of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk.

Sister L.A. Rara Elena (December 31, 1910, Moscow - July 9, 1955, Casablanca ) in 1939 in Libava married Roman Martynovich Zile (1900, Odessa - 1971, Cologne ), the son of the rector of the University of Riga, Martin Zile . In 1941, they fled to Germany, and in 1949 they moved to Casablanca in French Morocco , where Elena died of an illness. Her grave was preserved in the local Christian cemetery Ben-Msik ^[1] .

Brother L. A. Rara Gleb Rar (October 3, 1922, Moscow - March 3, 2006, Freising ) was a church and public figure, worked as a journalist, actively participated in the work of the NTS and was one of the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad , for the unification of which He acted as the Moscow Patriarchate since 1990.

• The shoots magazine. It was published in the refugee camp of 1945/46.
• The newspaper "Russian"; London 1952-1954.
• Early years. 1930-1948: Essay on the history of the People's Labor Union. Posev publishing house, Moscow 2003 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-5-85824-147-8
• Executed by insanity (on punitive psychiatry in the USSR), Posev publishing house, Frankfurt 1971
• NTS before the war. Grani, No. 47, Frankfurt 1960

• "Sowing" No. 12/1980, Frankfurt 1980
• A.P. Stolypin : In the service of Russia . Posev Publishing House, Frankfurt 1986. ISBN 3-7912-2010-1
• E. Andreeva: General Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement . Overseas Publications Interchange London 1990
• E. R. Romanov: In the struggle for Russia. Memories . Golos Publishing House, Moscow 1999. ISBN 5-7117-0402-8
• K.M. Aleksandrov : Officer corps of the army of Lieutenant General A. A. Vlasov 1944-1945 . Posev Publishing House, Moscow 2009. ISBN 978-5-85824-186-7
• R. V. Polchaninov: Youth of the Russian Abroad . Sowing, Moscow 2009. ISBN 978-5-85824-189-8
• G. A. Rahr : ... And our generation will report to history . Memories. Russian Way Publishing House, Moscow 2011 ISBN 978-5-85887-382-2

• L. A. Rahr as Camp Leader at Lemgo .
• E. Andreeva. General Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement .
• A.P. Stolypin. In the service of Russia .
• A.V. Okulov. Cold civilian .