Georgy Bogdanovich
Georgy Bogdanovich (23rd of April 1891, Riga, Russian Empire – 9th of January 1942, UsolLag, Russian SFSR) – a judge, a member of the Judicial Chamber.
Georgy Bogdanovich was born in Riga into the family of a magistrate, Ivan Bogdanovich, and his wife Anastasia. He graduated from the Riga Alexander Gymnasium. In 1914, he received a first-class diploma from the Faculty of Law of the Imperial University of St. Petersburg. That same year, with the outbreak of the First World War, he was mobilized into the army and served in the Kovno (Kaunas) Artillery Fortress. He was commissioned as an officer, served as an adjutant of a heavy artillery battalion, and held the rank of second lieutenant. In February 1918, he was discharged from the army.
From May until the end of 1919, he had been working in the municipal administration of Sinelnikovo in Ukraine, serving as a secretary in the city administration and head of the statistical bureau. From 1920 to July 1922, he had been living as a refugee in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
In July 1922, he returned to Latvia. On September 19, 1922, he was appointed junior candidate for a judicial position at the Riga Regional Court (on June 16, 1924, he was promoted to senior candidate); he was attached to investigating judges in Riga and Valmiera. From January 7, 1927, he served as an investigating judge at the Riga Regional Court. On April 5 of the same year, he was appointed magistrate of the 1st Daugavpils City District of the Latgale Regional Court, and at the same time served as chairman of the Daugavpils municipal hiring board. From February 15, 1928, he was a member of the Latgale Regional Court, working in its 1st criminal division. In May 1928, as well as in May and July 1930, he submitted requests for transfer to the Riga Regional Court, which were not granted. From 1928 to 1931, he was a member of the audit commission of the Līksna unit of the 18th Daugavpils Aizsargi Regiment. From February 17, 1931, he was a member of the Judicial Chamber (the appellate court of the Republic of Latvia).
On June 14, 1941, he was arrested by Soviet punitive authorities and deported to Solikamsk, to the Usolye Corrective Labor Camp (UsolLag), where he died on January 9, 1942.
He was married to Alide Minna Leontine Mikelson (born November 2, 1901, in Jaunpils). They had a daughter, Agnia (December 23, 1926, Riga – January 2011, Riga), and a son, Gvidon Pavel (July 30, 1929, Koknese – October 4, 2007, Sydney, Australia; émigré public figure).
Sources of information:
LATVIJAS TIESNEŠI. Senāts, Tiesu palāta un apgabaltiesas biogrāfijās. 1918–19140. Sastādītāji Dr. hist. Ērika Jēkabsons, Dr. hist. Valters Ščerbinskis. – Rīga, 2017, 64.–65. lpp.
LNA LVVA, 1534. f., 5. apr., 25.l.; 1536. f., 26. apr., 51.l.;
Картотека айзсаргов;
LNA LVA, 1987. f., 1. apr., 12910. l.;
Es viņu pazistu. Rīga, 1939.
