Anastassi Andreevich Vonsyatski

Anastassi Wonsjazki (1935)

Anastassi Andrejewitsch Wonsjazki (Анастасий Андреевич Вонсяцкий; born June 12, 1898 in Warsaw ; † February 5, 1965 in Saint Petersburg , Florida) was a Russian fascist politician who emigrated to the USA after the revolutions of 1917 . He gained notoriety in 1942 as a defendant in an espionage trial.

Life

Wonsjazki was born in Warsaw , which at that time belonged to the Russian Empire , as the fifth child of Colonel Gendarmerie Andrej Nikolajewitsch Wonsjazki and his wife Inna Pljuschtschewskaja. His father came from an impoverished German-Polish family loyal to the Tsar and was murdered by one of his informants on June 16, 1910 in Radom . From 1916 Wonsjazki attended a cavalry school, which he did not finish due to the outbreak of the revolution. As a staunch monarchist, Vonsyatsky took part in the Russian Civil War on the side of the White Army , where he was wounded several times. In December 1919, when Wonsjazki was now a captain, he fell ill with typhus and had to leave the front. He was evacuated first to Novorossiysk and Yalta , and finally to Constantinople in March 1920 , where he was treated in the British hospital in Gallipoli . After stops in Paris and London, he came to New York in July 1921 , where he married the wealthy American Marion Ream, 20 years his senior, in February 1922. He then moved with his wife to their country estate in Thompson, Connecticut . In 1927 Wonsyatski became an American citizen and from 1930 to 1935 he was a lieutenant in the US Army Reserve. In May 1933 Vonsyatsky founded the fascist All-Russian National Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party (All-Russian Fascist Organization (VFO)), which a year later merged with the Russian Fascist Party of Konstantin Rodzajewski and was close to the American-German Confederation . After the USA entered World War II, Wonsjazki was arrested by the FBI along with members of the American-German Confederation in 1942 and charged with supporting German secret agents. Wonsjazki was sentenced to five years in prison and a $ 5,000 fine on June 22, 1942, but was released early on February 26, 1946 - after the end of World War II and the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt  . Wonsyazki died in Saint Petersburg , Florida, aged 66, and was buried in West Thompson Cemetery in Thompson, Connecticut .

literature

• John J. Stephan: The Russian Fascists: Tragedy and Farce in Exile, 1925–1945 . Harper Row, 1978, ISBN 0-06-014099-2 .
• E. Oberlander: The All-Russian Fascist Party . Journal of Contemporary History , Vol. 1, No. 1. (1966), pp. 158-173.
• К. В. Родзаевский.Zaveshchanie russkogo fashista / Завещание Русского фашиста . М., ФЭРИ-В, 2001, ISBN 5-94138-010-0 .
• А.В. Окороков. Фашизм и русская эмиграция (1920–1945 гг.) . М., Руссаки, 2002, ISBN 5-93347063-5 .
• Н.Н. Грозин. Защитные рубашки. Шанхай: Издательство Всероссийский Русский Календарь, 1939.
• Martin Ros: Jackals of the Third Reich. Downfall of the collaborators 1944–1945 . Neske, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-7885-0516-8 .
• Knútr Benoit: Konstantin Rodzaevsky . Dict, 2012, ISBN 978-6-13841624-1 .

Single receipts

1. ^ FBI History. Famous cases. Vonsiatsky Espionage