Boris Donskoy

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Boris Donskoy(1915)

Boris Mikhailovich Donskoy (

Field Marshal and military governor of Ukraine Hermann von Eichhorn
in the summer of 1918. He was convicted of murder by a German military court and executed by hanging.

Biography

Early life

Boris was born in a village of

First World War, he was mobilized into the Imperial Russian Army and Donskoy was placed onto a transport ship "Asia" in the Baltic Fleet
.

Revolutionary Activities

In 1916 Donskoy joined the

Kronshtadt
.

During the

Left Socialist-Revolutionaries in the Tauride Palace to discuss the organization of the military protest and later announced it at the Kronshtadt City Council. Along with Nikolai Rivkin, Donskoy led a combined squat of Baltic sailors against the Kornilov's protest. During the October Revolution Boris Donskoy was a commissar at the Fort Ino, just outside Saint Petersburg, from where he directed military formations to the Pulkovo Heights
.

In spring of 1918 along with

Left Socialist-Revolutionaries
that was sanctioned by its party to carry out an "international terror".

Assassination of Field Marshall Hermann von Eichhorn

In

Field Marshal Hermann von Eichhorn
. On July 30, 1918, he threw a bomb at the Field Marshal who soon died along with his adjutant Captain Walter von Dressler. Donskoy was caught right at the crime scene and was interrogated. He stated that Eichhorn was sentenced by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party as the commander of the German military forces who "strangled" the "revolution" in Ukraine, changed a political system, carried out a takeover as a supporter of the middle and upper class to bring to power the
Hetman of Ukraine
and confiscated land from peasants. Donskoy was convicted of murder by a German military court and sentenced to death by hanging. He was publicly executed on August 10, 1918.

See also

External links

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