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Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski was a Polish writer, explorer, university professor, and anticommunist political activist. He is known for his books about Lenin and the Russian Civil War in which he participated.
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Born 27 May 1878 · Died 3 January 1945 · Q1392335
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1945· 1 entry
Died 1945-01-03.
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1942· 1 entry
Converted to Catholicism (previously being a Lutheran), and the following year, he joined the ranks of the underground National Party
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1923· 1 entry
It was translated into Polish and then into several other languages
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1922· 1 entry
Ossendowski returned to Poland and settled in Warsaw
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1920· 1 entry
Ossendowski joined a group of Poles and White Russians trying to escape from communist-controlled Siberia to India through Mongolia, China and Tibet
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1918· 1 entry
Was responsible for the transfer of many tsarist and White Russian documents to the Entente, including proofs (many apparently forged) of German support (confirmed later from German archives) for Lenin and his Bolshev
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1907· 2 entries
Awarded FF Busse Award (1907).
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Was released from prison with a so-called wolf ticket, which prevented him from finding a job or leaving Russia
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1901· 1 entry
Was allowed to return to Russia, where professor Zalewski invited him to the newly founded Institute of Technology of the Tomsk State University
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1899· 1 entry
After a students' riot in Saint Petersburg, Ossendowski was forced to leave Imperial Russia and move to Paris, where he continued his studies at the Sorbonne, his professors being Maria Curie-Skłodowska and Marcelin Bert
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1878· 1 entry
Born 1878-05-27.
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