Anton Serebryanin (1898-1930) was a White Russian emigrant to the United States who was arrested for the 1925 murder of ex-Bolshevik commissar Ruslan Beloglazov in Edison, New Jersey.
Biography[]
Anton Dmitrievich Serebryanin was born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire in 1898, and he came from a family of Octobrist intellectuals. Serebryanin served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and in the White Army during the Russian Civil War, and he left Russia for the United States on the Bolshevik seizure of power. Serebryanin settled in the "New Petrograd" section of Edison, New Jersey, where he worked as editor of the Russkaya Gazeta diasporic newspaper. In 1925, Serebryanin came across the ex-Bolshevik commissar Ruslan Beloglazov while conducting interviews, and, after Beloglazov's body was found in the Dismal Swamp days later, Serebryanin was arrested in connection to the murder. Serebryanin was acquitted after a jury found that he had acted in "self-defense", as the jury shared Serebryanin's concerns about Bolshevik activity in America. Serebryanin died in a 1930 factory accident.