Born 24 February or 24 April 1870 (sources differ)[2] in Grodno, in a noble family being part of the Clan of Ostoja, Bohatyrewicz joined the Imperial Russian Army, where he received officers training.

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

[2] After the Polish Defensive War of 1939 Bohatyrewicz was arrested by the NKVD[4] and imprisoned in Kozelsk[5][6] in the Soviet Union.

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

[7][8] 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).