Author:George Solonevich

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George Solonevich was born Юрий Иванович Солоневич (Yuri Ivanovich Solonevich) in 1915. His father, Ivan Solonevich (1891-1953), was a Russian journalist and writer who became a prominent monarchist theorist after escaping from the USSR in 1934.

George Solonevich and his wife Inga lived in the Roanoke, Virgina area for many years. This article from 2012 includes the following time-line and other data that will be useful for assembling a biography for George Solonevich.

1915: Inga born in Tampere, Finland

1928: Inga's father dies; family sinks into poverty.

1938: Inga marries Russian-born artist George Solonevich in Berlin

1939: Son, Mischka Solonevich is born during an air raid on Berlin

1945: Inga, George and Mischka become refugees

1947: Daughter, Ulita Solonevich is born in Germany

1948: Family moves to Argentina

1953: Family comes to America on a coffee freighter

1955: Soloneviches buy 127.5 acres near Bent Mountain

1994: George Solonevich has a heart attack and stroke in their sauna.

2003: George Solonevich dies at age 87.

2008: Inga’s first great-grandchild, Sullivan Knight, is born.

2009: Inga says she still has “a lot of nice years ahead.”

2012: Inga dies at her beloved Solola.

George Solonevich was a Soviet dissident and artist who spoke seven languages and escaped from the Soviet Union on foot when he was still a teenager.

Inga was the author of two books. "The Long Trek to Solola," about their years-long journey to America, featured pictures painted by Inga herself as well as her husband. The family spent months crossing Germany in a horse-drawn wagon in subzero temperatures amid the deadly chaos at the end of World War II, and then several years in Argentina before moving to America.

Inga's second self-published book, "I am Maia!," was told from the point of view of her poodle-schnauzer mutt, and detailed Inga's decade-long effort to care for her husband after he suffered a heart attack and stroke and was badly burned in a sauna accident in 1994. George Solonevich lived nearly 10 more years, suffering additional strokes and spiraling into dementia. In the end, he believed he was back in a Soviet jail, and that Inga was his jailer. Review of I am Maia.

Letter from their son, Mike Solonevich of Wessobrunn, Germany.

Jefferson College of Health Sciences may have more information as they have some of George Solonevich's paintings and a scholarship called the "George Solonevich Scholarship".^[1]

Other sources include this 1991 interview of George Solonevich and his wife.