Background
Boris Nikolaevich Shiryaev was born October 27, 1889 in Moscow to a noble family. He was the son of the hereditary Orthodox Christian landlord.
Boris Nikolaevich Shiryaev was born October 27, 1889 in Moscow to a noble family. He was the son of the hereditary Orthodox Christian landlord.
At the end of History and Philology of Moscow State University was engaged in teaching and theater. Then Boris Nikolaevich studied at the University of Göttingen (Germany). Returning to Russia, he graduated from the General Staff Academy (Imperial Russia).
During the First World War, joined to army, reaching the rank of captain. In 1918 Boris Nikolaevich returned to Moscow and attempted to get into the Volunteer Army, but was arrested and sentenced by the Bolsheviks to death for trying to cross the border. A few hours before the execution was running.
In 1922 Boris Nikolaevich faced a new arrest in Butyrka prison. He was sentenced to death, which was replaced by 10 years of exile in Solovki prison camp, and along with hard labor Boris participated in the camp theater and the magazine "Solovetsky Islands", where in 1925-1926 published the novel "1237 lines" and several poems: "Solovki", "The Dialectics of today", "Turkestan poems," etc. Shiryaev collected and recorded camp folklore, which was published a brochure circulation of 2000 copies.
In 1929 was replaced by a reference to 3 years in Central Asia, where Boris Nikolaevich was a journalist. On his return in 1932 to Moscow, he was arrested again and sent to 3 years to Rossosh village (Voronezh Oblast). From 1935 to 1942 Boris Nikolaevich lived in the North Caucasus in Stavropol and Cherkessk. Before the start of Second World War could he snatches back to teaching and lecturing in the provincial universities. On the eve of the outbreak of war he taught history of Russian literature in the Stavropol Pedagogical Institute. After the occupation of Stavropol German and Romanian troops (on August 3, 1942) and the closure of the Institute headed by Boris Nikolaevich, newspaper "Stavropol word" first issue in the amount of four pages came a week after the arrival of the Germans. He wore a clear anti-Soviet, but the German censorship in it subject only to a summary of news from the front. Four months later, the newspaper was renamed the "Morning of the Caucasus", has spread across the North Caucasus region. At the approaches to the city of the Soviet troops Boris Nikolaevich left Stavropol with the Germans.
In May 1943 Boris Nikolaevich attended school in Dabendorf ROA (at Berlin). He was the captain of the RAF, worked with the rules issued in Crimea fascist newspaper "Voice of the Crimea," and in June 1943, in Simferopol he obtained of the German High Command an awarded Hitler insignia established for distinguished himself in the fight against Bolshevism.
In February 1945 Boris Nikolaevich was sent to Northern Italy for founding the new Russian publication. After the war, in the spring of 1945, he stayed in Italy and ended up in a camp for displaced persons (Capua), a life in which the book is devoted to the " Pee Dee in Italy ", published in Russian in Buenos Aires in 1952.
In Italy Boris Nikolaevich actively writing fiction and literary articles, published in the Russian magazine "Rebirth" and "The Edge." The first three Shiryaev's books - " Pee Dee in Italy "( 1952), "I'm a Russian" (1953) and "Lights of the Russian Land" (1953) were published in Buenos Aires, with the assistance of his associate, living in Argentina, the publicist and monarchical publisher Ivan Solonevich, whose brother, Boris Solonevich also sat in prisons.
Boris Shiryaev died on April 17, 1959 in San Remo.
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Boris Nikolaevich belonged to the Russian Apostolate, a Russian Catholics' abroad movement. He was a converted from Russian Orthodox Church.
Boris Nikolaevich was a representative of anti-bolshevism.
In his book "Unquenchable Oil Lamp" Boris Nikolaevich indirectly criticizes the Russian Liberation Army.
Boris Nikolaevich was married and had a son.