General Boris Savinkov, the Terrible, ended his life by jumping from the window of his prison cell in the State Political Department.
Late last summer, Savinkov was caught by the ogpu (secret police, successors to the Tsars' okrana) and subsequently brought to trial (TIME, Sept. 8). Although the organizer of many political assassinations, including those of Von Plehve and Grand Duke Sergius, he had become an enemy of the Bolsheviki.
At his sensational trial, he did not scruple to say that his estimates of Bolshevism had been mistaken, but told the court bluntly:
"I know the decision beforehand. I do not value my life...
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