11 Facts About Vladimir Burtsev

Vladimir Lvovich Burtsev was a revolutionary activist, scholar, publisher and editor of several Russian language periodicals.

Vladimir Burtsev became famous by exposing a great number of agents provocateurs, notably Yevno Azef in 1908.

Vladimir Burtsev was born in Fort-Aleksandrovsky, in the Transcaspian Oblast of the Russian Empire to a military family.

In 1888 Vladimir Burtsev managed to escape from exile and emigrate to Switzerland.

Vladimir Burtsev, wanted by the czarist police, boarded a British boat bound from Constantinople to London.

In 1898, Vladimir Burtsev was arrested by British police for advocating, in his magazine Narodovolets, the assassination of Nicholas II.

Vladimir Burtsev was found guilty and sentenced to 18 months at hard labour.

Vladimir Burtsev founded and published six issues of Byloye, a historical magazine.

Vladimir Burtsev spent the rest of his life as an emigre, first in Finland, then Sweden and later in France.

In 1921 Vladimir Burtsev co-founded and became chairman of the Russian National Committee.

Vladimir Burtsev died in poverty in Paris in 1942 from a blood infection.