"I Gave an Oath of Promise to Relentlessly Fight Against the Executioners and Tyrants of Russian People...". New Materials about the General I.M. Zaitsev
The article is devoted to the activities of the Companion of Ataman A.I. Dutov - General Ivan Matveyevich Zaitsev. In 1924, Zaitsev returned from emigration to the USSR in order to conduct subversive work. Then he was arrested, and later again went to emigration, where he showed himself as a memoirist and led an even more active anti-Bolshevik activity. Departure to the USSR, and then return to China provoked distrust and suspicions in emigrant circles. Recently declassified documents of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service somewhat expanded the ideas about Zaitsev's biography in the USSR, but gave rise to erroneous conclusions and accusations against this officer. The author, in the light of new materials about Zaitsev, analyzes the motives and logic of his behavior in the USSR and in China. In the article, author publishes Zaitsev's previously unknown report to the head of the Shanghai branch of the Russian General Military Union, General M.K. Dieterichs from the archive of the Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco, dated 1930 and devoted to the issues of the continuation of the anti-Bolshevik struggle.