Ivan Matveyevich Zaitsev (  September 13, 1879 – November 22 , 1934) was an Orenburg Cossack, Major General (1919), a participant in the First World War, Commander of the 4th Isetsk–Stavropol Regiment of the Orenburg Cossack Army and Commander of Russian Troops in Khiva, Commissar of the Provisional Government in Khiva Possessions, Acting Chief of Staff of the Turkestan Military Organization, a participant in the Civil War on the side of the White Movement.Ivan Zaitsev. Sakharov Center Biography Ivan Matveyevich Zaitsev was born in September 1879 (according to other sources – September 21 , 1877) in the village of Karagayskaya of the 2nd (Verkhneuralsky) Military Department (Orenburg Cossack Army), in the family of a village teacher. In 1894, he graduated from a four–grade city school in Verkhneuralsk and became a stanitsa teacher of the Fominsk United Cossack school. In 1895, he passed the exam for a second category volunteer and a year later, on September 1 , 1896, he was enrolled as a cadet in the Orenburg Cossack Cadet School . In the school he was in charge of the Zeikhhaus . He graduated from college in 1898, the first in his graduation, for which he was awarded the prize of Prince Eugene Romanovsky, Duke of Leuchtenberg, in the amount of 100 rubles. Upon graduation, he was promoted to the rank of corpsman and was assigned to the 2nd Orenburg Cossack Voivode of the Nagoy Regiment, stationed in Warsaw. After serving in this regiment for more than a year and a half, in the rank of cornet he was assigned to Helsingfors and served in the Separate Orenburg Cossack Division.Andrey Ganin. "Solovki" by Ivan Matveevich Zaitsev In 1906, with the rank of sotnik, he successfully passed the entrance exams and entered the Nikolaevsky Academy of the General Staff. Simultaneously with him , but a course older, his future colleagues also studied at the Academy : the future Military Ataman of the Orenburg Cossack Army Alexander Dutov, the future Chief of Staff of the Southern Army Ivan Tonkikh and the future Chief of Supply of the Southern Army Sergei Schepikhin. He graduated from the Academy in the second category and was not assigned to the General Staff. He passed additional exams at the Academy for the right to teach military administration and geodesy in military schools and, returning to his native land in the summer of 1909, entered the service as an officer–educator in the Orenburg Neplyuevsky Cadet Corps , by the beginning of the First World War – with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Participation in the First World War Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Zaitsev went to the front of the First World War voluntarily, having requested permission from Emperor Nicholas II and received the Highest Permission, although, being an officer–educator of the Orenburg Neplyuevsky Cadet Corps, he was not obliged to serve at the front. He was appointed to the staff of the 1st Orenburg Cossack His Imperial Highness the Heir to the Tsarevich Regiment . During the years of the Great War, he served as a senior staff officer of the regiment, assistant regiment commander in combat units, then temporarily Commander of the 7th Don Cossack Regiment, first assistant Commander of the 11th Orenburg Cossack Regiment, Chairman of the Regimental Court in the 12th Orenburg Cossack Regiment. Was shell –shocked . During the war, he was awarded the Order of Saint George, 4th Degree, Saint George's Arms, the Order of Saint Stanislav, 2nd Degree With Swords, the Order of Saint Anna, 2nd Degree With Swords, the Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th Degree, with Swords and a Bow. The end of the First World War was met by the regiment commander with the rank of colonel. Upon learning of this decision of the committee, Colonel Zaitsev was forced to flee, but five days later he was found in Askhabad and arrested. On February 21 , 1918, a revolutionary court sentenced him to death, but the execution was replaced by ten years of solitary confinement in the Tashkent Fortress, where he was imprisoned on February 26. Zaitsev fled from the fortress four and a half months later – on July 1 , 1918. The escape was organized with the help of the Turkestan Military Organization, which, according to Zaitsev himself, "had connections and people everywhere". By the way, the Turkestan Military Organization also took care of Zaitsev's wife, sending her to Chimkent with a reliable guide on the day of her husband's escape. Once free, Zaitsev immediately became a member of this underground officers' organization as the acting chief of staff. After the defeat of the main structures of the Turkestan Military Organization by the bodies of the Turkestan Extraordinary Commission, Zaitsev, while trying to get to the ataman Dutov, was arrested, but not identified, and on December 24 , 1918, was released under police supervision. In April 1919, under the guise of a simple worker, he crossed the line of the Orenburg Front in the Bokhachevo Area and went to the location of the Separate Orenburg Army of Lieutenant General Alexander Dutov. Soon he became Chief of Staff of the Orenburg Military District, then – acting Chief of Staff of Ataman Dutov, from October 1919 – Chief of Staff of the Dutov's Orenburg Army. By order of the Supreme Ruler and Supreme Commander–in–Chief Admiral Alexander Kolchak of September 20 , 1919, he was promoted to the rank of Major General. On January 6 , 1920, after being defeated in battles with the Red Army, Dutov's Orenburg Army was officially disbanded. In early February 1920, Ivan Zaitsev was sent to China as Dutov's plenipotentiary representative in Beijing and Shanghai. On October 28 , 1924, Ivan Zaitsev was arrested by the Joint State Political Directorate and spent 7 months in Butyrskaya Prison. On January 2 , 1925, by the decision of a Special Meeting at the Collegium of the Joint State Political Directorate, he received 3 years in camps. In June 1925, he was sent in a convoy to Solovetsky Camp and on June 16  he arrived at the Kemsky Transit Point, and then on June 18  with a group of prisoners he was sent to Bolshoy Solovetsky Island. Here he began working as a forestry overseer in the forestry during forest cleaning operations, later worked on unloading icebreakers in the White Sea, on watch at the Solovetsky Mayak, and also got on "general work" for refusing the offer of the camp leadership to write a note about the civil war for the magazine "Solovetsky Islands". In September 1926, he first ended up in a punishment cell, and then for three months in a isolation cell. He is one of the few surviving eyewitnesses who visited the "Sekirka" – in the punishment cell in the temple on Sekirnaya Gora. On February 3 , 1928, after serving his main sentence, Ivan Zaitsev was sent into exile in Komi for 3 years. On August 3 , 1928, he fled from under the supervision of the State Political Administration from the transfer point in the city of Ust–Sysolsk and wandered around the country for more than seven months. On September 17 , 1928, Ivan Zaitsev, using forged documents of land surveyor Pavel Golubev, got a job in the district land administration of the Amur District. On February 26 , 1929, he crossed the Soviet–Chinese border near the Poyarkovo Railway Station and came to live in Shanghai. Alternative version In 2017, Vladimir Markovchin , a Senior Researcher at the Research Institute of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, said that, according to declassified documents, after arriving in the Soviet Union, Zaitsev began to cooperate with the Joint State Political Directorate in carrying out an operation to withdraw from Shanghai to Soviet Union of ships of the Kolchak Military Squadron. This operation was successfully carried out. According to Markovchin, Zaitsev's arrest was just a fake , as was his escape from exile to China , but in reality Zaitsev was sent to China as an agent of Soviet intelligence.Spy Game of the Soviet Union: Declassified Materials About the "Most Betrayed Traitor" In the same year, this version was refuted  by Zaitsev's biographer, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Andrei Ganin , in a special article as inconsistent with the cited documents. According to Ganin, General Zaitsev made the decision to fight Bolshevism "from within", infiltrating the leadership of the Red Army. Chinese period of life Since 1929, Ivan Zaitsev lived in Shanghai , was actively involved in journalism and writing books. So, in May 1931 , he wrote and published a book of memoirs "Solovki " about the time spent in the camp on Solovki. His life in Shanghai was extremely complicated by the extremely hostile attitude of part of the Russian public living in Shanghai. On June 15 , 1930, Ivan Zaitsev tried to contact the head of the department of the Russian All–Military Union in Shanghai, Lieutenant General Mikhail Dieterichs , and filed a report in his name about the true goals of his trip to the Soviet Union, but Dieterichs told him "about the loss of the report with documents". Thus, it became almost impossible for Ivan Zaitsev to achieve his official rehabilitation. By order of the leading center of the Russian All–People's Party of Nationalists, he was appointed head of its Far Eastern Department. On November 22 , 1934, Ivan Zaitsev committed suicide. On October 8 , 1993, he was posthumously rehabilitated. Family Wife – Zaitseva (Metneva) Alexandra Semyonovna. The spouses did not have children.
Ivan Matveyevich Zaitsev ( , 1 September 1879 – 22 November 1934) was an Orenburg Cossack, Major General (1919), a participant in the First World War, Commander of the 4th Isetsk–Stavropol Regiment of the Orenburg Cossack Army and Commander of Russian Troops in Khiva, Commissar of the Provisional Government in Khiva Possessions, Acting Chief of Staff of the Turkestan Military Organization, a participant in the Civil War on the side of the White Movement.Ivan Zaitsev. Sakharov Center Biography Ivan Matveyevich Zaitsev was born in September 1879 (according to other sources – 21 September 1877) in the village of of the 2nd (Verkhneuralsky) Military Department (Orenburg Cossack Army), in the family of a village teacher. In 1894, he graduated from a four–grade city school in Verkhneuralsk and became a teacher of the Fominsk United Cossack school. In 1895, Zaitsev passed the exam for a second category volunteer and a year later, on 1 September 1896, he was enrolled as a cadet in the . In the school he was in charge of the armory . He graduated from college in 1898, the first in his graduation, for which he was awarded the prize of Prince Eugene Romanovsky, Duke of Leuchtenberg, in the amount of 100 rubles. Upon graduation, he was promoted to the rank of corpsman and was assigned to the 2nd Orenburg Cossack Voivode of the Nagoy Regiment, stationed in Warsaw. After serving in this regiment for more than a year and a half, in the rank of cornet he was assigned to Helsingfors and served in the Separate Orenburg Cossack Division.Andrey Ganin. "Solovki" by Ivan Matveevich Zaitsev In 1906, with the rank of sotnik, Zaitsev successfully passed the entrance exams and entered the Nikolaevsky Academy of the General Staff. Studying at the academy at the same time , but a course above him, were several of his future colleagues : the future Military Ataman of the Orenburg Cossack Army Alexander Dutov, the future Chief of Staff of the Southern Army and the future Chief of Supply of the Southern Army . Zaitsev graduated from the Academy in the second category and was not assigned to the General Staff. He passed additional exams at the Academy for the right to teach military administration and geodesy in military schools and, returning to his native land in the summer of 1909, entered the service as an officer–educator in the , by the beginning of the First World War – with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Participation in the First World War Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Zaitsev went to the front of the First World War voluntarily, having requested permission from Emperor Nicholas II and received the Highest Permission, although, being an officer–educator of the Orenburg Neplyuevsky Cadet Corps, he was not obliged to serve at the front. He was appointed to the staff of the . During the years of the Great War, he served as a senior staff officer of the regiment, assistant regiment commander in combat units, then temporarily Commander of the 7th Don Cossack Regiment, first assistant Commander of the 11th Orenburg Cossack Regiment, Chairman of the Regimental Court in the 12th Orenburg Cossack Regiment. Zaitsev suffered from shell shock during the war . During the war, he was awarded the Order of Saint George, 4th Degree, Saint George's Arms, the Order of Saint Stanislav, 2nd Degree With Swords, the Order of Saint Anna, 2nd Degree With Swords, the Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th Degree, with Swords and a Bow. The end of the First World War was met by the regiment commander with the rank of colonel. Upon learning of this decision of the committee, Colonel Zaitsev was forced to flee, but five days later he was found in Askhabad and arrested. On 21 February 1918, a revolutionary court sentenced him to death, but the execution was replaced by ten years of solitary confinement in the Tashkent Fortress, where he was imprisoned on 26 February. Zaitsev fled from the fortress four and a half months later – on 1 July 1918. The escape was organized with the help of the Turkestan Military Organization, which, according to Zaitsev himself, "had connections and people everywhere". By the way, the Turkestan Military Organization also took care of Zaitsev's wife, sending her to Chimkent with a reliable guide on the day of her husband's escape. Once free, Zaitsev immediately became a member of this underground officers' organization as the acting chief of staff. After the defeat of the main structures of the Turkestan Military Organization by the bodies of the Turkestan Extraordinary Commission, Zaitsev, while trying to get to the ataman Dutov, was arrested, but not identified, and on 24 December 1918, was released under police supervision. In April 1919, under the guise of a simple worker, he crossed the line of the Orenburg Front in the Bokhachevo Area and went to the location of the Separate Orenburg Army of Lieutenant General Alexander Dutov. Soon he became Chief of Staff of the Orenburg Military District, then – acting Chief of Staff of Ataman Dutov, from October 1919 – Chief of Staff of the Dutov's Orenburg Army. By order of the Supreme Ruler and Supreme Commander–in–Chief Admiral Alexander Kolchak of 20 September 1919, he was promoted to the rank of Major General. On 6 January 1920, after being defeated in battles with the Red Army, Dutov's Orenburg Army was officially disbanded. In early February 1920, Ivan Zaitsev was sent to China as Dutov's plenipotentiary representative in Beijing and Shanghai. On 28 October 1924, Ivan Zaitsev was arrested by the Joint State Political Directorate and spent 7 months in Butyrskaya Prison. On 2 January 1925, by the decision of a Special Meeting at the Collegium of the Joint State Political Directorate, he was sentenced to three years in camps. In June 1925, he was sent in a convoy to Solovetsky Camp and on 16 June he arrived at the Kemsky Transit Point, and then on 18 June with a group of prisoners he was sent to Bolshoy Solovetsky Island. Here he began working as a forestry overseer in the forestry during forest cleaning operations, later worked on unloading icebreakers in the White Sea, on watch at the Solovetsky Mayak, and also got on "general work" for refusing the offer of the camp leadership to write a note about the civil war for the magazine "Solovetsky Islands". In September 1926, he first ended up in a punishment cell, and then for three months in a isolation cell. He is one of the few surviving eyewitnesses who visited the "Sekirka" – in the punishment cell in the temple on Sekirnaya Gora. On 3 February 1928, after serving his main sentence, Ivan Zaitsev was sent into exile in Komi for three years. On 3 August 1928, he fled from under the supervision of the State Political Administration from the transfer point in the city of Ust–Sysolsk and wandered around the country for more than seven months. On 17 September 1928, Ivan Zaitsev, using forged documents of land surveyor Pavel Golubev, got a job in the district land administration of the Amur District. On 26 February 1929, he crossed the Soviet–Chinese border near the Poyarkovo Railway Station and came to live in Shanghai. Alternative version In 2017, , a Senior Researcher at the Research Institute of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, said that, according to declassified documents, after arriving in the Soviet Union, Zaitsev began to cooperate with the Joint State Political Directorate in carrying out an operation to withdraw from Shanghai to Soviet Union of ships of the Kolchak Military Squadron. This operation was successfully carried out. According to Markovchin, Zaitsev's arrest was a cover story , as was his escape from exile to China . In reality Zaitsev was sent to China as an agent of Soviet intelligence.Spy Game of the Soviet Union: Declassified Materials About the "Most Betrayed Traitor" This version was refuted the same year by Zaitsev's biographer, Doctor of Historical Sciences, , in a special article as inconsistent with the cited documents. According to Ganin, General Zaitsev made the decision to fight Bolshevism "from within", infiltrating the leadership of the Red Army. Chinese period of life Ivan Zaitsev lived in Shanghai from 1929, and was actively involved in journalism and writing books. In May 1931 he wrote and published a book of memoirs entitled Solovki about the time spent in the camp on Solovki. His life in Shanghai was complicated by the extremely hostile attitude of part of the Russian public living in Shanghai. On 15 June 1930, Ivan Zaitsev tried to contact the head of the department of the Russian All-Military Union in Shanghai, Lieutenant General Mikhail Diterikhs , and filed a report in his name about the true goals of his trip to the Soviet Union, but Diterikhs told him "about the loss of the report with documents". Thus, it became almost impossible for Zaitsev to secure his official rehabilitation. By order of the leading center of the Russian All–People's Party of Nationalists, he was appointed head of its Far Eastern Department. On 22 November 1934, Ivan Zaitsev committed suicide. On 8 October 1993, he was posthumously rehabilitated. Family He married Alexandra Semyonovna Zaitseva (née Metneva). They did not have children.
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