Background
Unbegaun, Boris was born in 1898 in Moscow.
Unbegaun, Boris was born in 1898 in Moscow.
Educated at a Moscow high school. Graduated from the Mikhailovskoe Artillery School, took part in World War I and the Civil War (on the side of the Whites). Graduated from Lubljana University, and later from the Sorbonne.
Evacuated from the Crimea after the defeat of Wrangel, and moved to Yugoslavia. Librarian of the Institut d’Etudes Slaves in Paris. Compiled a catalogue of Russian periodicals in Paris libraries.
Professor of Slavonic philology at Strasbourg before World War II. Deported by the German authorities to Buchenwald concentration camp. After his release, returned to Strasbourg University, and then moved to Brussels University. A special chair of comparative Slavonic philology was created for him at Oxford University, 1953-1967.
After his retirement from Oxford, lectured in the USA and Australia. Member of the Belgian and German academies. Ungern von Sternberg, Roman Fedorovich
1886-1921.
Lieutenant-general.
From a family of Baltic barons. On active service in the Russian army during World War I. After the October Revolution 1917, organized anticommunist military detachments in Eastern Siberia. During the Civil War, a close ally of ataman Semenov, Commander of the White Cossacks in Siberia.
Became very familiar with the way of life, traditions and religion of the Central Asian people, whose ways and dress he adopted, becoming something like a local Mongol chieftain. De facto dictator of Mongolia, February 1921. Defeated after his return with his forces to Russia, MayAug.
1921. Captured by the Reds, sentenced to death and shot.
Religion is bad because it makes people base the way they run their lives on a falsehood.
Every Soviet citizen has rights to express his or her opinion, but it should be in accordance with the general interests of the society.