Vladimir Lvovich Burzew

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Vladimir Burzew

Vladimir Lvovich Burzew , Russian Владимир Львович Бурцев Burcev, Vladimir Lʹvovič (born September 17, 1862 in Ufa ; according to other sources in Fort-Aleksandrowskij, now Fort Shevchenko ; died August 21, 1942 in Paris ) was a Russian revolutionary who tried to Unmask agents of the tsarist secret police . He was known as the "Sherlock Holmes of the Russian Revolution".

Life

He was born in Fort Alexander, where his father served as a staff captain in the fortress garrison. He spent his childhood in the family of his uncle, a rich merchant in Ufa. He attended high school in Ufa and then in Kazan, which he graduated in 1882.

He studied at the physical-mathematical faculty of the University of St. Petersburg . In 1882 he was de-registered for participating in student riots. Re-accepted at the University of Kazan , Burtsev was arrested in 1885 for membership in Narodnaya Volya (popular will) and, after a year imprisonment in the Peter and Paul Fortress, exiled in 1886 in eastern Siberia to the village of Malyshevskoye (Irkutsk province).

After he fled Siberia to Switzerland in 1888, he was involved in the overseas edition of the newspaper “Самоуправление”, published his book “White Terror under Alexander III”, the book “Siberia and Exile” with the American journalist and explorer George Kennan . In 1889 he published Svobodnaja Rossija (Free Russia, La Russie libre, 1889-1891) in Geneva with Mikhail Dragomanov , but it was discontinued after the third edition. The police thought he was an anarchist.

In Paris in 1890 Burtsev was accused of being involved in bomb attacks organized by agent provocateur Adam Moischewitsch Gekkelman-Landezen (actually Arkadij Michailowitsch Garting).

In 1891 he moved to Paris, where he came into contact with Social Revolutionaries . He moved on to London, where he was sentenced to forced labor in 1898 for inciting terrorism in Russia .

In the same year he returned to Switzerland and constantly changed his place of residence with false papers. In Geneva he published Narodowolec (People's Volunteer). In 1903 he was discovered and expelled here when the tsarist agent Henri Bint was arrested .

In 1908/09 he discovered Eugen Asew in Paris .

When he returned to Russia in 1914 to register as a war volunteer , he was arrested while crossing the border. He was exiled to Siberia for life on February 5, 1915 for insulting the Tsar . Due to public outrage in France, he was pardoned on August 2, 1915.

On February 8, 1918, he was expelled from Russia on the orders of the People's Commissar for Justice, the left Social Revolutionary Isaac Steinberg . He went first to Finland and then to France, where he took over the publication of the newspaper "Common Cause" in Paris (1918–1922, 1928–1931, 1933–1934).

1919–1920 he met Denikin and Wrangel in the Crimea and the North Caucasus . He later corresponded with both of them.

In 1921 he was one of the founders and a member of the Presidium of the Russian National Committee (anti-Soviet) and co-editor of the magazine "The Struggle for Russia" (1926–1931).

In the 1930s, Bourtsev published anti-fascist articles and fought against anti-Semitism . Particularly in connection with the Bern Trials 1934–1935, he pointed out the inauthenticity of the “ Protocols of the Elders of Zion ”. In 1938 he published a book in which he claims to have been informed of the falsification of the protocols by the Tsarist Okhrana .

He was buried in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois near Paris.

Publications

  • The Tsar and Foreign Policy. Eberhard Frowein Verlag, Berlin 1910.
  • Be cursed, you Bolsheviks !. The Free Publishing House, Bern 1918.
  • The fight against Bolshevism - above all! Publishing house "Common Cause", Berlin 1920.

literature

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Burtsev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marc Vuilleumier / KMG: Burtzew, Wladimir. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ A b Dieter Fricke, Rudolf Knaack: Documents from secret archives: overviews of the Berlin political police on the general situation of the social democratic and anarchist movement 1878-1913. Volume 3: 1906-1913. P. 223.
personal data
SURNAME Burzew, Vladimir Lvovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бурцев, Владимир Львович (Russian); Burcev, Vladimir Lʹvovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Ufa (city)
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1942
Place of death Paris