A Face of Russia Murdered On October 29, 1929, a Russian officer, White Guard Sergei Alexandrovich Grabovsky (1896 - October 29, 1929) was shot. Graduated from the Vilna Gymnasium. served as lieutenant of the 2nd Hussar Regiment of the Imperial Russian Army; 4th Artillery Aviation Division Pilot; After 1918 - fought in the 5th Aviation Division of the Volunteer Army and the Soviet Union of the Socialist Republics, from 1919 - Captain, in the Russian Army in aviation units until the evacuation of Crimea. In December 1920 - in the 1st company of the aviation battalion of the technical battalion in Gallipoli; Captain in exile in Constantinople. In the mid-1920s he returned to the Soviet Union and taught physical education in high school. In the spring of 1926, he was arrested on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation", sentenced to 10 years in a concentration camp and sent to the Solovetsky concentration camp. August 1929 - Arrested as a "member of the organization of an armed rebellion and mass escape of prisoners abroad". On October 24, he was sentenced to death and on the night between October 28 and 29, 1929, he was executed. "A strong figure, squarely built. A firm, handsome face with bold eyes. Straight, military, this is our second guide, Seryozha Grabovsky. He, like many others here, is a white officer who fell into provocation at the end of the civil war, he was evacuated together with the army, and then he also surrendered to the Soviet agent. Now he has been in Solovki for 10 years. Seryozha is my old friend and my friend from the gymnasium in Vilnius. We studied together with him, together we went through the first stages of Sokol education. Even then, one of his characteristic qualities was courage and perseverance. I remember once in the gym, he, an excellent gymnast, did a bicycle spin ("sun") on the horizontal bar. The horizontal bar was technically incorrectly installed, it wobbled, and Seryozha, falling at full swing, flew several meters in the air and hit his chest on the stove. Everyone gasped and rushed to him. Seryozha's face was bleeding, and apparently, he was badly hurt.

A Face of Russia Murdered On October 29, 1929, a Russian officer, White Guard Sergei Alexandrovich Grabovsky (1896 - October 29, 1929) was shot. Graduated from the Vilna Gymnasium. served as lieutenant of the 2nd Hussar Regiment of the Imperial Russian Army; 4th Artillery Aviation Division Pilot; After 1918 - fought in the 5th Aviation Division of the Volunteer Army and the Soviet Union of the Socialist Republics, from 1919 - Captain, in the Russian Army in aviation units until the evacuation of Crimea. In December 1920 - in the 1st company of the aviation battalion of the technical battalion in Gallipoli; Captain in exile in Constantinople. In the mid-1920s he returned to the Soviet Union and taught physical education in high school. In the spring of 1926, he was arrested on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation", sentenced to 10 years in a concentration camp and sent to the Solovetsky concentration camp. August 1929 - Arrested as a "member of the organization of an armed rebellion and mass escape of prisoners abroad". On October 24, he was sentenced to death and on the night between October 28 and 29, 1929, he was executed. "A strong figure, squarely built. A firm, handsome face with bold eyes. Straight, military, this is our second guide, Seryozha Grabovsky. He, like many others here, is a white officer who fell into provocation at the end of the civil war, he was evacuated together with the army, and then he also surrendered to the Soviet agent. Now he has been in Solovki for 10 years. Seryozha is my old friend and my friend from the gymnasium in Vilnius. We studied together with him, together we went through the first stages of Sokol education. Even then, one of his characteristic qualities was courage and perseverance. I remember once in the gym, he, an excellent gymnast, did a bicycle spin ("sun") on the horizontal bar. The horizontal bar was technically incorrectly installed, it wobbled, and Seryozha, falling at full swing, flew several meters in the air and hit his chest on the stove. Everyone gasped and rushed to him. Seryozha's face was bleeding, and apparently, he was badly hurt.