Born 24 February or 24 April 1870 (sources differ)[6] in Grodno, in a noble family being part of the Clan of Ostoja, Bohaterewicz joined the Imperial Russian Army, where he received officers training.

[7] Successful in the battle of Grodno, in 1919 he became the commander of the Polish 81st Infantry Regiment.

[6] After the Polish Defensive War of 1939 Bohaterewicz was arrested by the NKVD[8] and imprisoned in Kozelsk[9][10] in the Soviet Union.

He was murdered in Katyn in the spring of 1940, aged seventy, during the Katyń massacre.

[11][12] Among the Katyn victims were 14 Polish generals including Leon Billewicz, Xawery Czernicki (admiral), Stanisław Haller, Aleksander Kowalewski, Henryk Minkiewicz, Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski, Konstanty Plisowski, Rudolf Prich (murdered in Lviv), Franciszek Sikorski, Leonard Skierski, Piotr Skuratowicz, Mieczysław Smorawiński and Alojzy Wir-Konas (promoted posthumously).