igor krivocheine

Third son of Alexandre Krivocheine, Minister of Agriculture between 1908 and 1915.

Promotion of 1916 of His Imperial Majesty's Corps of Pages.

He took part in the fighting of the First World War and then, in the ranks of the Wrangel Army, in the Civil War. Appointed captain of the Imperial Guard Mounted Artillery. Left Russia in 1920 and settled in Paris. In 1923 graduated from the Higher School of Electricity. In 1928 he became chief engineer of the Lemercier Frères company.

A resistance fighter from the start, collaborator among others of Mother Marie (Skobtsov), he was arrested in June 1944, tortured by the Gestapo, then deported to Buchenwald, then to Dachau. In 1945 Igor Krivocheine was decorated by General de Gaulle with the Resistance Medal.

In 1946 he took Soviet citizenship, went to the USSR in 1947. Arrested in 1949 by the Soviet services, he was sentenced to 10 years in re-education through labor camps for “collaboration with the international bourgeoisie”. Released and rehabilitated after Stalin's death. From the 1960s he was active in the Samizdat movement. Published his memories (See Alexander Solzhenitsyn, “The Red Wheel”, “Knot 3”, “March 1917” and “Messenger of Russian Volunteers in the Resistance 1946-1947”). Managed to return to Paris in 1974.

He rests with his father-in-law Prince Alexis Pavlovich Mestchersky (1866-1938) and his wife Nina Alexeïevna Krivocheina née Mestcherskaya (1895-1981)