Boris Kowerda

Borough of Kowerda in 1927

Boris Kowerda, Russian Борис Софронович Коверда; Boris Sofronowicz Kovierda, white. Барыс Сафронавіч Каверда; Barys Safronawicz Kawierda (born August 21, 1907 in Vilnius, February 18, 1987 in Washington) is a Russian emigre activist of Belarussian origin in the Second Polish Republic and the United States, the assassin of the USSR in Warsaw, Piotr Wojkowa. Curriculum vitae

He was born as a son of a school teacher and sympathizer of the eser. From 1915 to 1920 he and his mother stayed in Samara, where he personally experienced red terror (including the death of his cousin and the death of his friend Lebedev). After the Treaty of Riga, the family returned to Vilnius, where Kowerda first learned in the Belarusian gymnasium and later in Vilnius. He also worked in the editorial office of the anti-Communist magazine "Belarussia Slavkov".

Along with her editor, Arseniy Pawlukiewicz and former white-faced Mikhail Jakowlew, in 1927, he prepared a coup against USSR deputy Piotr Wojkowa, who arrived at the Warsaw Central Railway Station on 7 June. According to Boris Kowerdy's report, Wojkow's shooting was the execution of a white Russian sentence for his involvement in the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his 16-member family. Moscow announced the murder at the Warsaw station by "the act of war" and put it into a combat readiness of the Red Army. "

Kowerda was arrested and brought to trial in Warsaw. The well-known lawyers were Paschalski, Andrejew, Niedzielski and Ettinger. Kowerda was sentenced to life imprisonment (later converted to a 15-year prison term). After leaving for freedom in 1937, Kowerda went to Yugoslavia, where he graduated from the Russian high school in the White Church. From 1944 he stayed in Germany, later in the USA - worked there in the New York newspaper "Rossija", later in the print shop "Nowogo russkogo words."

He died in Washington and was buried in the Orthodox monastery of New Diwiejewo.

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