Georgy Dmitrievich Bezsonov, variant: Yury Dmitrievich Bezsonov (Безсонов, Георгий/Юрий Дмитриевич)) was a Russian Imperial Army cavalry officer, known for his memoir about the Soviet Solovki prison camp and his escape from there.
He escaped from Solovki together with four other inmates: Матвей Сазонов, Ingush Sozerko Malsagov, Pole Эдвард Мальбродский, Василий Приблудин. Malsagov also wrote a similar memoir.
Memoir
Двадцать шесть тюрем и побег с Соловков
References
- ЮРИЙ БЕЗСОНОВ, БЕЖАВШИЙ ИЗ СОЛОВКОВ
- Безсонов, Двадцать шесть тюрем и побег из Соловков, Paris, Imprimerie de Navarre, 1928.
- English translation: Bessonov, J.D. (1929). My Twenty-six Prisons and my Escape from Solovetsky. London: Jonathan Cape.