Vasili Biskupski

Gen. Wasilij Wiktorowicz Biskupski Василий Викторович Бискупский (born April 27, 1878 in Tomsk, died June 18, 1945 in New York City) is a Russian military general (major) and an emigre counterrevolutionary activist, monarchist, working with Germany during the Second World War. II.

In 1895, he graduated from the Cadet Corps, and in 1897 he became a cavalry school. He was given an assignment to the cavalry regiment of the leglight. From 1904 he served in the 2nd Dagestan cavalry regiment. He participated in the Russo-Japanese War; he was seriously injured. In February 1913, he was sent back to the reserve as a lieutenant colonel. He briefly traded in the Far East. Once again mobilized to participate in the First World War. From December 27, 1914, he commanded the 1st Moscow Regiment of Dragoons, from March 24, 1915 to the rank of Major General, from January 1917 - 1st Brigade of the 3rd Cavalry Division, and from March of this year - the entire division. He was awarded the Order of St. Jerzy 4 class. In the spring of 1918, he was transferred to the Ukrainian army of Hetman Paweł Skoropadski. On April 29, he assumed command of the Ukrainian army he held until December 18. On July 20 he became commander of the Ukrainian 1st Cavalry Division. At the beginning. December tried with the troops of Atamana Grigoryev, under the banners of the Ukrainian Directorate of Odessa. In 1919 he emigrated to Germany. He tried unsuccessfully to take over the leadership of Gen. Rüdiger von der Goltz's volunteer corps in the Baltic states, promising to attack Moscow. He headed the pro-German West-West Representation. In March 1920 he participated in the unsuccessful coup of Kappa-Lüttwitz. After his fall he fled with Gen. Erich Ludendorff and tried to form a "counter-revolutionary army" composed of Germans, Russians, Hungarians and Italians, who would lead to restaurants in the Central European countries, including Russia. From the end of 1920 he belonged to the organization "Возрождение" ("Aufbau"), which brought together white Russians and Germans. After some time, he was in charge of this function until November 1923. In the interwar period he was one of the ideologists of the so-called " "Russian fascism". He lived in Munich, where in 1923 he gave shelter to the Nazis, including Adolf Hitler. He later became head of the Russian emigre at Charlottenburg, under the supervision of the Gestapo, and in May 1936, the director of the Vertauenstelle für Russische Fluchtlinge in Berlin. At the same time, he was an adviser to the Ministry of the Interior of the Third Reich. During the war, however, he did not focus on A. Hitler, who - according to him - did not understand the significance of Russian emigration in the struggle with the Soviets, but on other Nazi militias. At the end of the war A. Hitler pushed him aside for not agreeing with German policy towards Red Army prisoners of war. According to some sources, W.W. Biskupski was involved in the conspiracy against Hitler in 1944. After the end of the war he left for the United States. He was decorated with the Order of St. George IV, Order of Saint Vladimir IV, Order of St. Anne II, III and IV, and Order of St. Stanislaus II and III.

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