Anastase Andreivitch Vonsiatsky | |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Warsaw, Russian Empire |
June 12, 1898
Died | February 5, 1965 St. Petersburg, Florida, United States |
(aged 66)
Spouse(s) | Lyuba Murmosky Marion Buckingham Ream |
Children | Andre Anastase Vonsiatsky |
Parents | Andrei Nicolaevich Nina Anastasevna |
Residence | Quinnatisset Farm, Putnam, Connecticut, U.S. |
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Anastasy Andreyevich Vonsyatsky (Russian: Анаста́сий Андре́евич Вонся́цкий, Polish: Anastazy Wąsacki; June 12, 1898 – February 5, 1965), better known in the United States as Anastase Andreivitch Vonsiatsky, was a Russian anti-Bolshevik émigré and fascist leader based in the United States from the 1920s.
He became a naturalized American citizen while leading a splinter far-right organization, the Russian National Revolutionary Labor and Workers Peasant Party of Fascists. The headquarters of the RFO were based in Putnam, Connecticut. Vonsyatsky was charged with the support of secret contacts with agents of Nazi Germany and arrested by the FBI in 1942, following the United States' entry into war with Germany and Japan. Released early from prison in 1946, Vonsyatsky lived out the remainder of his life in the United States. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1965.
Anastasy Andreyevich Vonsyatsky was born in Warsaw, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire). His family known for its long devotion to the Russian czars; one of Vonsyatsky's great-grandparents had been handed a titled estate from the Romanovs. His father, Andrei Nicolaevich, was a professional army officer assassinated at a Radom office of the imperial gendarmerie by a Polish revolutionary in 1910. His mother was Nina Anastasevna.