Yakov Abramovich Zhitomirsky (the party pseudonym of the Fathers ) ( 1880 -?) - a political figure, a Bolshevik , a member of the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP , an agent of the German and Russian police.
| Yakov Abramovich Zhytomyr | |
|---|---|
| Aliases | Party pseudonym of the Fathers, agent pseudonyms Andre, Doday, Obukhov, Rostovtsev, Ilya Ivanovich Shorin |
| Date of Birth | 1880 |
| Date of death | unknown |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | doctor, political activities |
| Education | Faculty of Medicine, University of Berlin |
| The consignment | RSDLP |
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Biography
Born in a Jewish family. In the early 1900s studied at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Berlin . He organized a social democratic circle. Due to the proximity to the members of the Social Democratic Party, he was recruited by the German police. In 1902, Zhytomyr took a prominent place in the Berlin group "Iskra". In the same year, in 1902 , due to the interest of the Police Department of the Russian Empire in agents close to the Social Democrats , he was transferred to the head of the Berlin Agent's Department of the Police Department, A. M. Garting, and became the agent of the foreign agency's Police Department [1] . He informed about the activities of the Berlin group of the Iskra newspaper , and at the same time carried out instructions from the editorial board and the Central Committee of the party, making trips to Russia on her instructions. While living in Paris , he was in the closest circle of V.I. Lenin (from the end of 1908 to 1912 ). He informed the Police Department about the activities of the Social Democrats, Social Revolutionaries, representatives of other left-wing parties in emigration. On the basis of information sent to the Zhytomyr Police Department, a well-known Bolshevik S. A. Kamo , agents of the RSDLP, who tried to sell bank notes expropriated in one of the Russian banks, were arrested [2] . Participated in the 5th (London) Congress of the RSDLP ( 1907 ); participant in plenary meetings of the Central Committee of the RSDLP in Geneva ( August 1908 ) and the 5th All-Russian Conference of the RSDLP (Paris, December 1908 ). At the conference he was elected to the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP, later became a member of the "Foreign Agents" of the Central Committee of the RSDLP.
During the First World War, he remained in France, where he served as a doctor in the Russian Expeditionary Force . After the February Revolution, when the documents of the Parisian agents of the Police Department fell into the hands of the revolutionaries, he was exposed as a “provocateur” , hid from the inter-party court [Comm. 1] [3] . He lived in one of the countries of South America.
Notes
- ↑ In addition to Zhytomyr, who was part of the financial commission of the Bolshevik Center Abroad, the central police informants for the Bolsheviks at that time were L. E. Serov-Langwald, technical secretary of the Central Bureau of St. Petersburg, which enjoyed great confidence from the leaders of this Bureau (see: Golubkov A., From the epoch of reaction // Proletarian Revolution. 1928. No 9. S. 125, etc.), as well as M. I. Bryandinsky, who was in the years 1909–1911. "Technical agent of the Central Committee" in Moscow. (B.I. Nikolayevsky "Secret pages of history")
Sources
- ↑ Zhytomyr
- ↑ Zhytomyr Yakov Abramovich
- ↑ Golubkov A. From the epoch of reaction: The proletarian revolution. - 1928. - T. No 9. - p. 125 and others.
Literature
- V. Agafonov. Parisian secrets of the Tsarist secret police. - M .: Rus, 2004. - 413 c. - ISBN 5-8090-0027-4 .
- B.I.Nikolayevsky . Secret pages of history . - Publishing house of humanitarian literature, 1995. - 512 p. - 2000 copies - ISBN 5-87121-007-4 .