Vasily Biskupsky

Vasily was forced to leave the Russian Imperial Army after his secret marriage to operetta singer Anastasia Vyaltseva had been made public.

After the Russian Revolution, Pavlo Skoropadskyi put Biskupsky in charge of the military forces of the Central Council of Ukraine.

He was one of the first Russians to give unqualified support to Hitler[2] (whom he claimed to have concealed in his own apartment after the failed Beer Hall Putsch[5]).

[5][6] Indeed, he was deeply involved in ultra-right émigré politics and made numerous attempts to capitalize on his earlier experience in the Aufbau (Economic-Political Society for Aid to the East) - an office which he had founded, in which the future top Nazi functionaries Alfred Rosenberg and Arno Schickedanz would serve for a time.

[7] In 1936, Hitler put him in charge of the Russische Vertrauensstelle, a government body dealing with the Russian émigré community.