Jacob (Yakov) Zhitomirsky (russian: Яков Абрамович Житомирский; party alias Otsov (); Okhrana aliases Andre and Daudet) was a prominent

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

best known for being a secret agent of the

Okhrana The Department for Protecting the Public Security and Order (russian: Отделение по охранению общественной безопасности и порядка), usually called Guard Department ( rus, Охранное отд ...

Biography

He was recruited by

in 1902, while studying at the

University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

. Zhitomirsky was active in Berlin RSPLP group, reporting its activities to the Russian police, until 1907 when Bolsheviks were expelled from Berlin by German authorities and Zhitomirsky moved to Paris. He attended 5th RSDLP Congress in London. In 1908 he was given twenty 500-ruble notes by the people involved in the

1907 Tiflis bank robbery The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery, also known as the Erivansky Square expropriation, was an armed robbery on 26 June 1907 in the city of Tiflis in the Tiflis Governorate in the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire (now Georgia's capital, Tbili ...

. Unable to exchange notes, he passed this money to the vice-director of the Russian Department of Police Vissarionov, during his visit to Paris. During

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

he served as a doctor with the

Russian Expeditionary Force in France The Russian Expeditionary Force EF(french: Corps Expéditionnaire Russe en France, russian: Экспедиционный корпус Русской армии во Франции и Греции) was a World War I military force sent to France a ...

and reported about revolutionary propaganda among the Russian troops.

References

* V.K. Agafonov. ''Zagranichnaia okhranka.'' * E. Shcherbakova. ''Agenturnaia Rabota Politicheskoi Politsii Rossiiskoi Imperii : Sbornik Dokumentov : 1880-1917'' he Intelligence service in the political police of the Russian Empire: Document collection: 1880-1917 Moscow, St. Petersburg: AIRO-XXI, Dmitrii Bulanin, 2006. . 1880 births 20th-century deaths Year of death missing Okhrana informants Double agents Russian Jews Bolsheviks {{Russia-bio-stub