Alexandre Bessmertny (1888-1943) was born in St. Petersburg and later moved to Germany. In 1933, because of his Jewish background, he fled to France and afterwards to Czechoslovakia where he was arrested by the Gestapo and executed in Berlin.

In the 1930’s he  wrote about Atlantis and was published in both German^[176] and with a French translation^[175] by F. Gidon, who also added his own ideas to the text. Bessmertny discussed the various theories in vogue at that period.