Ivan Lukyanovich Solonevich (, 13 November 1891, Ciechanowiec, then Grodno Governorate, Imperial Russia — 24 April 1953, Montevideo, Uruguay) was a Russian philosopher, historian, writer, editor, publisher, publicist and conservative political activist. A member of the White movement during the Russian Civil War and later of the anti-Soviet underground in Ukraine, Solonevich was persecuted and jailed. He spent 1920s and early 1930s as a sports official, photographer and journalist, all the while looking for the opportunity to leave the country. After several failed attempts he finally succeeded in 1934 and spent the rest of his life in emigration, first in Finland, then Bulgaria, Germany, Argentine (where he founded the newspaper Nasha Strana, Our Country) and Uruguay. Solonevich authored several acclaimed books on Russian monarchy (The Assassins of the Tzar, 1938; The Myth about Nicholas the Second, 1949) and political repressions in the USSR (Russia in Concentration Camp, 1935). His best-known work is People's Monarchy (1951) in which he fully developed his doctrine of monarchy being the only viable and historically justified political system for Russia. Bibliography Translations Die Verlorenen. — 5. Auf. — Essen: Essener-Verlag, 1937. (German) The Soviet Paradise Lost. — New York: The Paisley Press, Inc, 1938. (English) Russia in Chains. — London: Williams and Norgate Ltd, 1938. (English) Het "proletarische" paradijs Russland een concentratiekampf. — Den Haag: W. P. Van *Stockum & Zoon N. V, 1937. (Dutch) Rosja w obozie koncentracyjnym. — Lwow: Nakladem Sekretariatu *Porozumiewawczego Polsckich Organizacyi Spolecznych we Lwowie, 1938. (Polish) Rusko za mřížemi — Praha: Prapor Ruska, 1936. (Czech) Russija u konclogoru / Urednik dr. J. Adric. — Zagreb: Knjiznica dobrich romana, 1937. Иван Солоњевич. Народна монархиjа/Превод Зоран Буљīuћ. – Београд: Центар за изучавање Традициjе «Укрониjа», 2014 (Serbo-Croatian) References External links The Works by Solonevich at Lib.ru, the online Moshkov library The Last Knight of the Empire. 2014 film by Sergey Debizhev (YouTube, 1 h 20 min) 1891 births 1953 deaths People from Ciechanowiec People from Belsky Uyezd (Grodno Governorate) Russian nationalists Russian monarchists People of the Russian Civil War White movement people Soviet defectors White Russian emigrants to Germany 20th-century Russian journalists Burials at The British Cemetery Montevideo