Tageev, Boris Leonidovich

Born in 1871 in St. Petersburg in the family of a lawyer. According to legend, his grandfather Bakir ibn Mohammed Tahki was born in Persia , allegedly from one of the Shah’s many wives. He was brought to St. Petersburg, baptized in the Orthodox rite and received the surname Tageev.

Boris Tageev received his home education and entered the military service of volunteers in the 1st Turkestan Line Battalion, where in 1892 he had the rank of ensign . In 1901 he was dismissed from service with the rank of lieutenant .

During the service, he perfectly studied the life, customs, customs and culture of the local population. He owned the Persian language, independently learned the Sartov (Uzbek) language. By the spring of 1904, he had already written seven books on Central Asia and Afghanistan . He continued to write while working in the editions of the Military Almanac and the Almanac of the Army and Navy.

In 1904 he was seconded to the headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the army in the Far East . June 1, 1904 participated in the battle of Wafangou under the command of General Samsonov . Soon , Admiral General Alekseev sent Tageyev to Port Arthur , where he served as communications officer. On June 8, Boris Leonidovich left the fortress with the task of taking out secret documents, but after entering the sea, his junior was captured by the Japanese, and Tageyev with two satellites was captured. Contained in the Matsuyami camp. In the summer of 1905, the Sudzilovsky populist visited the camp, who organized the "Committee for Assisting Russian Prisoners" and began to publish the weekly Japan and Russia for them. In this camp, Sudzilovsky met Tageev.

After his release, he arrived in Vladivostok , from where on November 9, 1905 he went through St. Petersburg to St. Petersburg . In China, he was caught by the outbreak of a general strike. Here Tageev collaborated with a democratic local press. The revolutionary riot ended with the arrests and executions of some of its members. The authorities did not like the literary and journalistic activities of Rustam-Bek, in mid-1906 he was arrested on a denunciation, but he fled and from that moment was in an illegal situation, hiding from his friends. With a fake passport in the name of the technician Malitsky handed to him by N.E. Garin-Mikhailovsky , Tageyev went to Vladivostok, deciding to leave for Japan. Boris Leonidovich counted on the help of Sudzilovsky, who published in Nagasaki the newspaper of the Socialist-Revolutionary trend "Will". In Japan, Tageev fell in love with the wife of 1st-rank captain E. M. Pogorelsky , Maria Nikolaevna Belaya ^[3] , who went to Boris Leonidovich.

Soon, Tageyev moved to Hong Kong with his wife, where, with the help of an English journalist he knew in Manchuria, he got a job as a correspondent for an English-language newspaper. Having adjusted their financial situation, he and his wife moved to France - Nice . In 1909, Rustam-Bek and his family moved to the town of Thonon on the shores of Lake Geneva , where he lived until 1912. In his work, a crisis ensued, accompanied by a break with his wife - Maria Nikolaevna returned to Russia. And Tageyev became an entrepreneur, earning his living by selling electric medical devices. He traveled around Europe and in Berlin he was caught by the First World War . He went to London , met here with the chief editor of the Daily Express , writing for them an article on Russia's strategy in the outbreak of war. Boris Leonidovich was offered the full-time position of a military observer. Moreover, on the advice of Lord Kitchener (the future British Minister of War), Tageev volunteered for the British Volunteer Corps journalist battalion, where he was elected vice chairman with the rank of lieutenant colonel . He published books in English, and after the war he moved to the United States . In America, he worked in the newspaper syndicate E. Marshall, a friend of the automobile king Henry Ford . The millionaire invited Boris Leonidovich to his estate near Detroit , drove him to car factories.

At the same time, the Soviet mission of L. K. Martens began to work in the United States. In June 1919, Tageev met Martens and received an offer from him to collaborate. He became a correspondent for the weekly Soviet Russia during the mission, and later became its editor. Soon he was already considered a military expert, and then he entered into negotiations with American firms on signing economic and trade agreements with Soviet Russia. At the end of 1920, the US government refused to recognize Soviet Russia and covered up the Martens mission. Its leaders were forced to leave the United States, and Boris Leonidovich returned to his homeland. February 17, 1921 he arrived in Petrograd. He worked in the magazine " Spark ", in the " Working Newspaper ", in the " Hooter ". From 1926 to 1934, he wrote several books published in considerable editions and brought good means to the author. Tageyev also worked as a consultant at the Soyuzdetfilm film studio.

He was arrested on October 19, 1937, and charged with being a Japanese, English, American, French, and Italian spy. Shot on January 4, 1938 . He was rehabilitated on March 26, 1976 by a resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR ^[1] .

The photographs of the viewing of the battalion of journalists were preserved, one of which among British writers is Arthur Conan Doyle , who also volunteered for the army and, accordingly, served under the leadership of Boris Tageev ^[4] .

• Tageev B. L. The battle and death of the glorious “Rurik”. - SPb. : LeKo, 2010 .-- 64 p. - ISBN 5-902236-33-6 .
• Tageev B.L. Pamir campaigns of 1892-1895. The decade of the accession of the Pamirs to Russia. - Warsaw, 1902. - 162 p.

• Tageev Boris Leonidovich. Brief bibliographic reference (Russian) . https://www.runivers.ru . Date of treatment January 5, 2019.
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• A brief bibliography of Tageev
• TAGEEV Boris Leonidovich (1871-1938) .