Vladimir Burtsev

Vladimir Lvovitch Burtsev, Russian Владимир Львович Бурцев ( born September 17, 1862 in Ufa, † 1942 in Paris) was a Russian revolutionary who tried to expose the agents of the Tsarist secret police.

After he escaped from Siberia in 1888, he gave in Geneva from 1889 to 1891 with Mikhail Petrovich Dragomanow the Svobodnaja Rossiya (Free Russia, La Russie libre ) out. The police thought he was an anarchist.

In 1891 he moved to Paris, where he came in contact with SRs. He moved to London, where he was convicted in 1898 for incitement to terrorism in Russia to forced labor.

In the same year he returned to Switzerland and joined with false papers constantly residence. In Geneva, he published Narodowolec (People's Volunteer ). In 1903 he was discovered here and reported in the arrest of Tsarist agent Henri Bint.

1908/ 09 he unmasked in Paris Eugen Filippowitsch Asev.

When he returned to Russia in 1914 in order to sign up as a volunteer, he was arrested while crossing the border. For insulting the tsar he was exiled on 5 February 1915 lifetime to Siberia. As a result of revolts in France, he was pardoned on August 2, 1915.

Publications

• The Czar and foreign policy; Berlin: Eberhard Frowein Verlag, 1910