Evgeny Petrovich Semenov

Shliom-Zelman-Solomon Moiseevich Kogan was born in 1861 near Odessa. He studied at the 2nd Odessa gymnasium, graduated from the 1st year of law faculty of Novorossiysk University in Odessa. He did not finish the course, since in 1882 he was arrested on charges of involvement in the activities of the People’s Will .

In 1882, he was released on bail, disappeared and emigrated abroad, where he lived until 1907. He collaborated in some foreign publications. In 1988 - 1989 edited the magazine “Freedom” together with Tursky in Geneva , under the pseudonym S. Knyazhnin; also under the pseudonyms Semenovsky and Simanovsky, stopping at E.P. Semenov.

He published, together with Esper Aleksandrovich Serebryakov, the magazine “On the Eve” [London, 1899-February 1902; No. 1-37]. Wife, since 1885 - Dora Solomonovna Tetelman (1860, Odessa -?), Emigrant. Sister Rina Solomonovna Tetelman (married, Serebryakova, 1862, Odessa, - 1942), the wife of Esper Alexandrovich Serebryakov, and, second marriage, P.N. Filonov . ^[1] In her early youth she joined the organization "Narodnaya Volya" and spent more than twenty years in exile, participating in her husband's publishing activities.

Under the pseudonym Nesvoy led the Russian department in the Paris weekly magazine Européen, founded by the Finns "to fight the Pleve and Bobrikov regime." Consisted of a Paris correspondent for Our Life, Comrade from the very foundation of the newspaper until its closure. He wrote in various magazines in France, Belgium and America. He was a permanent employee of French newspapers and magazines: "Mercure de France", where he led the Russian department; "Censeur", where he printed "Portraits of Russian figures"; "Messidor". In Paris, he published the following works in French: about Pushkin (1899), the popular Russian Grammar for Secondary Educational Institutions (1892), Etude on Gorky (L'Annociateur de la tempête); several translations: Le Marriage Mixte , "At the bottom" of Gorky; "Petty bourgeois" of Gorky (in collaboration with E. Smirnov).

He published a book in France on Jewish pogroms in Russia ( French Une page de la contre-révolution russe (les pogromes) ; 1905 ), published with a preface by Anatole France , and the French translation of Maxim Gorky 's Song of the Petrel with an essay on life and work writer ( Fr. L'annonciateur de la tempête ; 1905 , second edition 1921 ). He worked in pacifist organizations, served as Secretary General in the Disarmament League. Together with Prince P. D. Dolgorukov and M. M. Kovalevsky, he organized the first anti-war movements in Russia. He lectured on Russian and French literature.

In 1912 he returned to Russia.

Published in Russia a memoir “In the country of exile (From the notebook of a correspondent)” (St. Petersburg, 1912). He was published in The Common Affair, Our Life, the editor of Freedom, the editor-publisher of the newspaper On the Eve, and was published in Rech, Russian Word, The Day, Europeen and other publications.

In the post-revolutionary years, he was involved in the story with the “Sisson documents” , which compromised the leadership of the Bolshevik party as being held by the German government (later researchers consider these documents to be fake): with the mediation of Semenov, these documents were acquired by the American envoy Sisson from journalist Ferdinand Ossendowski , who probably made them ^[2] .

In 1920 he emigrated again to France.

He spoke in Paris with anti-Soviet lectures, published journalistic brochures “Pros and Cons. French Relations with the Russian Soviets ”( Fr. Pour et Contre. Les Relations de la France avec les Soviets Russes ; 1923 ) and“ Danger Signal: Franco-Russian Savings and Russian Banks after the Bolshevik Revolution ”( Fr. Un cri d'alarme: épargne franco-russe et banques russes depuis le coup d'état bolcheviste ; 1926 ).

In 1933 , he published the book The Suffering Life of Ivan Turgenev ( French: La vie douloureuse d'Ivan Tourguéneff ), which included some previously unreleased letters from the writer ^[3] .

• Semenov E. Beginning of the Kornilov movement // Russian Week: Journal of Politics, Literature and Art. 1925. June 28. Number 1.

• Curriculum Vitae on the site of the Marina Tsvetaeva House-Museum
• Kogan S. M. "Who has no heart in his chest"
• Eugène Semenoff. When Russia Went Red: The Diary of an Eyewitness // The Living Age, February 1, 1928, pp. 250-256. (eng.)
• https://ru-history.livejournal.com/4153150.html