Wilde Boris Biography

The gift of fearlessness. The life and death of Boris Wilde “to be shot-in a sense the logical end of my life. Cum with brilliance. Everyone ends with life in their own way. " Wilde, from a prison diary. The twentieth century loved to test people for strength. Physical, spiritual, moral. Everyone coped with the century as he could. And sometimes death was not the most terrible way out of this confrontation.

The young emigrant poet, a linguist and ethnographer Boris Wilde was shot by the Nazis in the year in Fort on Mont Mon-Van. He was 32 years old. The accusation is spying. A few months before the shooting, sitting in prison in anticipation of the trial, Wilde wrote in his diary: “You vowed to make yourself a funny, capricious, dangerous and difficult game from your life ...” The oath was too consonant with the spirit of time to let.

But, despite the installation of danger and risk, the life of Boris Wilde had little to do with the adventurer biography. His main “adventure” was the fight against the Nazi regime. The first “skirmish” with the Nazis happened in Berlin. He could not be a passive observer, so in the year he was arrested for participating in street clashes with the Nazis. He stayed in prison for several months.

Having been released, Wilde met Andre Jew, who came with a course of lectures in Berlin. On the advice of the writer, he decided to move to Paris, especially since he promised to help with admission to the Sorbonne. So from the year the French period of Boris Wilde’s life begins and 7 years of respite to new trials. Everything has changed dramatically in his life, like all of Europe, in metro, by the beginning of World War II, Wilde received French citizenship and served in the French army.

Therefore, in September, he was immediately mobilized and went to fight on the side of France against the Nazis. And life soon again asked him for an adventurous spirit. In June, Wilde was captured in the Yura mountains. Almost immediately, he decided to run and, despite the wound of his knee, walked kilometers. In July, he returned to Paris. But the Germans were already here.

Not wanting to live under the Nazis, Wilde, together with colleagues-ethnogrophes from the Museum of Man, developed a resistance plan. Initially, the underground newspaper was called. From its pages on December 15, the Frenchmate for the first time for organized resistance sounded for the first time. This scream is torn from your hearts, from the depths of despair, into which you plunged you the defeat of your homeland.

This is the cry of all the frightened, all who seek to fulfill their duty. But you feel disassembled and unarmed, in the chaos of ideas, opinions and systems you are looking for what your duty is. To resist is already to save your heart and your brains. But first of all, it is to act, to do something that is expressed in positive affairs, reasonable and useful actions.

Many tried, and often retreated, seeing their helplessness. Others united. But sometimes their groups turn out, in turn, disconnected and powerless. ” The text of Vilda, the advanced man's essentially became the ideological manifesto of resistance and step -by -step instructions for the action: “What are the methods? Combine in cells with those you know. Choose the elders yourself. The elders will contact reliable people who will send them and give us a detailed report.

Our committee takes on the leadership to coordinate your actions with those who are in the free zone, and those who fight with our allies. Your immediate task is to sex so that you can join the struggle on the day when you receive an order. Be selective, attracting decisive people, and put the best over them. Propecade and encourage those who doubt and no longer dare to hope. Look for those who renounced the homeland and betrayed it, and follow them.

Get ready every day and transmit information and important observations to the senior. Hold on the strictest discipline, observe the ultimate caution and complete secret. Beware of people of unreasonable, talkers, traitors. Never boast, do not trust anyone. Try to take on the necessary expenses. Later we will provide you with means that we are trying to collect now. ” Boris Wilde was ready for the victim, was ready for death.

By themselves, they did not scare him. The scared of only possible in vain.

In the same prison diary, he wrote: "The trouble is not that there is too much suffering in the world, but that there is too much barren suffering." But this, of course, is not his case. By the time of the arrest behind Wilde and his colleagues from the Museum of Man, there were an organization of resistance, illegal transfer to the abroad of volunteers to the troops of “fighting France”, helping Jewish families in flight from the country, and work in English intelligence.

Wilde understood that the arrest was most likely inevitable. Nevertheless, there was a chance to escape. When the underground activities of the Museum of Man was disclosed, he was on a business trip to the non -occupied territory. However, having learned that he himself was declassified, and his friends are already captured, he still decided to return to Paris.

The request to come to come from speaking - colleagues from the Museum of Man.As it will become clear only at the very end, it was he who was a traitor who surrendered all the underground Gestapo underground. When he crossed the square, he was seized. 11 months have passed since the arrest to the execution. All this time, Wilde kept a diary. But this is the part of his life that you do not want to exchange for retelling or sample quotes.

Moreover, everyone has the opportunity to contact her directly: in Russian, the diary was published by the Russian Way Publishing House.