In the article Boris Savinkov is presented not only as the head of the fighting squad of Socialist-Revolutionary Party, an ardent opponent of the Soviets, but as a writer, a poet, who published his works under the pseudonym of Ropshin. The complex personality of Savinkov disclosed in the memories of his contemporaries with whom he communicated in the emigration: D. Filosofov, D. Merezhkovsky, Z. Gippius, M. Voloshin, A. Amfiteatrov, K. Vendzyagolsky. Based on these materials, the author builds his concept of Ropshin-Savinkov, in whose fate, as in the fate of the characters of his works the history of Russia was reflected.