A member of the White movement during the Russian Civil War and later of the anti-Soviet underground in Ukraine, Solonevich was persecuted and jailed.

After several failed attempts he finally succeeded in 1934 and spent the rest of his life in emigration, first in Finland, then Bulgaria, Germany, Argentina (where he founded the newspaper Nasha Strana, Our Country) and Uruguay.

Solonevich made his fourth attempt to escape on July 28, 1934 from imprisonment in a BBK labor camp of the White Sea-Baltic Canal and, together with his son Yuri, successfully crossed the Finnish border.

[2] After the death of his wife Tamara due to the threat of new assassination attempts, Ivan Solonevich received a visa to Germany and in March 1938 he and his son left Bulgaria.

[3] Solonevich authored several acclaimed books on Russian monarchy (The Assassins of the Tzar, 1938; The Myth about Nicholas the Second, 1949) and political repressions in the USSR (Russia in Concentration Camp, 1935).