Background
Stolvpin, Arkadii was born on August 2, 1903 in Petersburg. Son of Prime Minister P. Stolypin.
Stolvpin, Arkadii was born on August 2, 1903 in Petersburg. Son of Prime Minister P. Stolypin.
Educated at high school in Paris. Graduated from the St. Cyr Military Academy before World War II.
Badly wounded as a child when terrorists bombed his father’s house on Aptekarskii Island near Petersburg, August 1906. Orphaned, 1911. His sister was killed by Red Guards during the Civil War in the Ukraine, 1920. Fled abroad with other members of his family.
Wrote a book about his father, published in Paris. Joined the Russian emigre youth organization NTSNP (later NTS), 1935. Head of the NTS in France, 1942.
Short arrest by the Gestapo. Given the task of creating lines of communication between the NTS and the Allies. After World War II, active in re-creating NTS groups in Western Europe and protecting Russian refugees from Beria’s SMERSH. With S. Melgunov, published Svobodnyi Golos in Paris.
Head of the foreign relations department of the NTS in Frankfurt in the 1950s. Head of the NTS in France from the beginning of the 1970s.