Kholʹmston-Smyslovskiĭ, Boris Alekseevich, 1897-1988

LC control no.	no2008144358
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Kholʹmston-Smyslovskiĭ, Boris Alekseevich, 1897-1988 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Holmston, A., 1897-1988 Holmston, Arthur, 1897-1988 Holmston, general, 1897-1988 Kholʹmston, Artur, 1897-1988 Kholʹmston, general, 1897-1988 Kholʹmston-Smyslovskiĭ, general, 1897-1988 Regenau, Artur von, 1897-1988 Smyslovskiĭ, Boris Alekseevich Kholʹmston-, 1897-1988 Smyslovskiĭ-Kholʹmston, Boris Alekseevich, 1897-1988 Smyslovsky, Boris, 1897-1988 Smysłowski-Holmston, Borys, 1897-1988 Смысловский-Хольмстон, Борис Алексеевич, 1897-1988 Хольмстон, Артур, 1897-1988 Хольмстон-Смысловский, Борис Алексеевич, 1897-1988 Хольмстон-Смысловский, генерал, 1897-1988 Хольмстон, генерал, 1897-1988
Associated place	Poland Germany Argentina
Birth date	1897
Death date	1988
Place of birth	Russia (Federation)
Place of death	Liechtenstein
Affiliation	Russkiĭ obshche-voinskiĭ soi︠u︡z Germany. Heer. Russische Nationalarmee, Erste Suvorovskiĭ soi︠u︡z
Special note	Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found in	Izbrannye statʹi i rechi, 1953: t.p. (General Kholʹmston-Smyslovskiĭ) added t.p. (General Holmston) p. 224 (General Kholʹmston) LC database, Sept. 10, 2008 (hdg.: Holmston, A.) Auf magischen Wegen, 1948: t.p. (A. Holmston) Wikipedia (Polish version), June 30, 2009 (Borys Smysłowski-Holmston, 1897-1988; Boris Alekseevich Smyslovskiĭ-Kholʹmston; born in Russia; after the Revolution emigrated to Poland; served with the Germans in World War II; lived in Argentina 1947-1966; lived in Liechtenstein until his death) Vikipedii︠a︡, June 30, 2009 (Kholʹmston-Smyslovskiĭ, Boris Alekseevich; pseudonym Artur Kholʹmston, in literature most often referred to as Kholʹmston-Smyslovskiĭ) Wikipedia, June 30, 2009 (Boris Smyslovsky; Boris Alexeyevich Smyslovsky (also Smyslovsky-Holmston and Holmston-Smyslovsky) (3 December 1897-5 September 1988) was a Russian general, emigre, and anti-communist. His pseudonyms were Artur Holmston and von Regenau) Deseret News, via WWW, June 30, 2009: Sept. 12, 1988/obituaries (Boris Smylovsky; called himself Arthur Holmston when he led the First Russian National Army of the German Wehrmacht) OCLC, June 30, 2009 (hdgs.: Kholʹmston-Smyslovskiĭ, general; Holmston, A.; Kholʹmston, B. A.; usage: General Kholʹmston-Smyslovskiĭ; B.A. Kholʹmston) Osobyĭ shtab "Rossii︠a︡, 2011: p. 3 (Борис Алексеевич Смысловский (1897-1988) = Boris Alekseevich Smyslovskiĭ ; pseudonyms, фон Регенау = fon [von] Regenau, Артур Хольмстон = Artur Kholʹmston) Suvorovet︠s︡, No 2 (1 okti︠a︡bri︠a︡ 1948): p. 2 (Суворовский союз = Suvorovskiĭ soi︠u︡z; Председатель ... Генерал-майор Хольмстон = Predsedatelʹ ... General-maĭor Kholʹmston); no. 280 (i︠a︡nvarʹ 1957): p. 26 (Российское военно-национальное освободительное движение имени Генералиссимуса А.В. Соворова (Суворовское движение) = Rossiĭskoe voenno-nat︠s︡ionalʹnoe osvoboditelʹnoe dvizhenie imeni Generalissimusa A.V. Sovorova (Suvorovskoe dvizhenie) p. 1 (Командор Движения ... Ген. Хольмстон-Смысловский = Komandor Dvizhenii︠a︡ ... Gen. Kholʹmston-Smyslovskiĭ) p. 7-8, 10-12 (in early 1941 Gvardii kapitan Smyslovskiĭ was serving as head of staff of Vostochnyĭ otdel Russkogo Obshche-voinskogo soi︠u︡za in Warsaw; as a result of his military studies in Germany and connections with German military commanders he was appointed Major under the name fon Regenau, and in 1943 Colonel in charge of the Russian Sonder-Division R; eventually in March 1945 the Russian forces under the command of now Major-General Smyslovskiĭ, who had just changed his name to Kholʹmston because the enemy had discovered his identity, were renamed Pervai︠a︡ russkai︠a︡ nat︠s︡ionalʹnai︠a︡ armii︠a︡. After the war he met with high-ranking American politicians in Lichtenstein and was able to get safe passage for his troops to Argentina in late 1947, where they formed Suvorovskiĭ soi︠u︡z, whose goal remained fighting communism and creating a Russian military force abroad)