Victor Serge , born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich , was a Russian revolutionary and writer. Originally an anarchist, he joined the Bolsheviks five months after arriving in Petrograd in January 1919 and later worked for the Comintern as a journalist, editor and translator. He was critical of the Stalinist regime and remained a socialist until his death. Serge was born in Brussels, Belgium, to a couple of impoverished Russian anti-Czarist exiles. His father, Leonid Kibalchich, a former infantry trooper from Kiev, was distantly related to Nikolai Kibalchich of the People's Will, who was executed as... a result of the assassination of Alexander II in 1881. Leonid, himself a Peoples' Will sympathiser, had fled Russia around 1887 and gone to Switzerland, where he met Serge's mother, Vera Frolova, née Podorovskaya. She was the daughter of an impoverished petty nobleman of Polish extraction from the Nizhni-Novgorod province.
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| Birthdate: | December 30, 1890 |
| Birthplace: | Brussels |
| Date of death: | November 17, 1947 |