Vasily Leopoldovich Horn (April 1876–18, 1938, Prague) - politician, state controller in the North-West Government , statistician.
Born on Lake Baikal, near Irkutsk [1] .
He graduated from Demidov Law Lyceum in Yaroslavl. Received a law degree. He served in the zemstvo, head of the agricultural statistics department. Since 1909, a sworn attorney of the St. Petersburg Court of Justice, legal adviser to various institutions.
Member of the RSDLP from 1897 to 1909.
In 1906-1907 published in Pskov published the popular worker-peasant socialist newspaper "Bee". In 1907-1918 he headed the editorial board of the "liberal socialist" newspaper "Pskov Life".
After the February Revolution , he was a member of the Pskov Committee for Public Security, a participant in the Moscow meeting . Vowel of the Pskov City Council, Chairman of the Finance Commission.
Supporter of the Social Democratic group Unity (plekhanovets).
In 1919, the official representative of the North-West Government in Estonia, State Comptroller of the North-West Government.
He was a member of the Committee of Russian Emigrants in Estonia. In 1921 he emigrated to Germany. Member of the Society for Assisting Russian Citizens in Berlin. Since 1926 he lived in Czechoslovakia, worked in the newspaper department of the Russian Foreign Historical Archive in Prague. Since 1934, a member of the Archive Council. He was a member of the Berlin and Prague Writers' Unions.
He was published in the anti-Bolshevik newspapers “Freedom of Russia”, “Days”, “Steering Wheel”, “Echo”, “Voice of the Past”.
Artwork
Horn V. Civil war in the North-West of Russia. Berlin: Gamayun, 1923.
Notes
- ↑ Horn V. Civil War in the North-West of Russia .. - Berlin: Gamayun, 1923. - P. 148.