26 Facts About Anastasy Vonsiatsky

Anastasy Vonsiatsky was the founder of the All-Russian Fascist Organisation.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky became a naturalized American citizen while leading a splinter far-right organization, the Russian National Revolutionary Labor and Workers Peasant Party of Fascists.

In 1942, following the United States's entry into war with Germany and Japan, Vonsiatsky was charged with supporting secret contacts with agents of Nazi Germany.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky pleaded guilty to espionage and was sentenced to 5 years in prison.

Anastasy Andreyevich Vonsiatsky was born in Warsaw, Poland.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky's father, Andrei Nikolaevich, was an army officer assassinated at a Radom office of the Imperial Gendarmes in 1910 by one of his informants who was a Polish revolutionary.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky was educated at a military prep school in Moscow and the Emperor Nicholas II Cavalry Academy in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky embarked upon a military career in the Imperial Russian Army during the reign of Nicholas II.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky served in the Volunteer Army under Anton Denikin.

One of the participants in these bloody affairs, officer Anastasy Vonsiatsky, having gone into exile and probably needing money, sold his memories about them to the editors of Latest News, where they were published under his signature.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky was once shot in the abdomen, and carried this bullet with him for the rest of his life.

In March 1930, Anastasy Vonsiatsky was given an American reserve officer's commission and appointed a first lieutenant of the United States Army Reserve; the military commission would eventually expire in 1935.

In 1934, Anastasy Vonsiatsky's organization merged with the Russian Fascist Party, another fascist political organization led by Konstantin Rodzaevsky and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky became a subject of FBI investigation and was indicted in 1942 for connections with proxies for German interests, including key participants in the pro-Nazi German American Bund, whose leader, Fritz Kuhn, had previously been assisted by Anastasy Vonsiatsky's bail money in 1939.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $5000.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky was imprisoned at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky authored a book entitled Rasplata about World War II, where "he accused the Japanese government, Franklin D Roosevelt, and his personal nemesis, Thomas J Dodd, of hampering the anti-Soviet cause".

Until his death, Anastasy Vonsiatsky hated Roosevelt, whom he called a communist, so much that he refused to use the dime, which featured his face.

Meanwhile, Anastasy Vonsiatsky dedicated the Tsar Nicholas II Museum in St Petersburg, Florida.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky first married Lyuba Muromsky, the daughter of a Jewish shopkeeper who had sheltered him during the Civil War, in Ukraine on January 31,1920.

On February 4,1922, still married to Lyuba, Vonsiatsky married Marion Buckingham Ream, the daughter of businessman Norman B Ream, and a multi-millionaire heiress by the time they married.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky became a naturalized citizen of the United States in the Superior Court of Windham County, Putnam, Connecticut, on September 30,1927, after Marion appealed to Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes.

Two months after his second marriage, he was accused of bigamy by his legal wife Lyuba; in November 1922, nine months after Anastasy Vonsiatsky become a bigamist, the US federal government and the Russian Orthodox Church granted him an annulment of the marriage to Lyuba.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky separated from Ream and started a romantic relationship with Edith Priscilla Royster in 1948.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky died of coronary thrombosis on February 5,1965, in St Petersburg, Florida at Mound Park Hospital, at 66.

Anastasy Vonsiatsky's body was interred at West Thompson Cemetery in Thompson, Connecticut.