Pyotr Boreysha

Pyotr Boreysha was the unused reserve goalkeeper of the Russian team at the 1912 Olympic Games. He played for the St. Petersburg teams of Victoria (1906–11), Neva (1912) and Unitas (1913). With Victoria, he was runner-up in the 1906 and 1908 St. Petersburg championships. With the St. Petersburg team he then became champion of the Russian Empire in 1912. He never played any official international matches but tended the goal in unofficial matches of selections of players from St. Petersburg against England (1911) and Sweden (twice in 1913).

Boreysha studied at the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical Institute but worked as a proofreader at Birzhevye Vedomosti, a St. Petersburg newspaper. In World War I, he served in the 164th Zakatala Infantry Regiment in the rank of staff captain and was wounded in 1914. He received the orders of St. Anne and St. Stanislav.

After the revolution he joined the ranks of the White troops at the Northern Front as a clerk and later adjutant. After their defeat in the region in 1920 he evacuated to Varnes in Norway and then emigrated to France. Boreysha lived in Paris working as a taxi driver and proofreader of newspapers and books of the Russian exile community. He founded the Russian Sports Society in France. With his wife Maria Nikolaevna (née Izmailova) he had one daughter.