beginning with the 7th issue. By exposing numerous Tsarist agent provocateurs such as Yevno Azef, Burtsev gained fame as a counterintelligence expert and became known as "the Sherlock Holmes of the Revolution". World War I and the Bolsheviks (1914 - 1921) At the outset of World War I in 1914 he repatriated, was arrested at the border and again exiled to Siberia. Amnestied in 1915, he returned to Petrograd. Burtsev strenuously opposed the Bolsheviks. In 1917 he accused Lenin and his comrades of being agents of Germany. In his article Either Us or the Germans and Those with Them (Russian Freedom, July 7, 1917), he listed the major enemies of Russia: Bolsheviks, whose demagoguery puts their own goals above the interests of Russia Reactionary forces German agents and spies. The Bolsheviks are, and always have been, the agents of Wilhelm II. On the day of the October revolution, he was arrested on orders of Leon Trotsky, which led some historians to count him as the first political prisoner in the USSR. Despite their political differences and public disputes in the press, Maxim Gorky pleaded for Burtsev's release and in February 1918 he was indeed freed and left Soviet Russia. Burtsev spent the rest of his life as an emigre, first in Finland, then Sweden and later in France. During the Russian Civil War, he supported the White Movement of Admiral Kolchak and General Anton Denikin. His numerous attempts to bring all anti-Bolshevik forces together under one ideological umbrella did not succeed. Later life and death (1921 - 1942) In 1921 Burtsev co-founded and became chairman of the Russian National Committee. In 1930s, Burtsev fought against fascism and antisemitism. In 1934–1935 he was a witness in the Berne Trial, exposing the Okhrana's role in creating the infamous fraud The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In 1938 in Paris he published a book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Proven Forgery. Burtsev died in poverty in Paris in 1942 from a blood infection. Publications Белый террор при Александре III (White Terror under Alexander III, 1890?) Долой царя! - London, 1901 (Down with the tsar!) Историко-революционный альманах (Historical-Revolutionary Almanach) О войне (About War, 1916) Проклятие вам, большевики! Открытое письмо большевикам." (Condemnation on You, Bolsheviks! Open letter, Stockholm, 1918) В борьбе с большевиками и немцами. (Fighting with the Bolsheviks and Germans, Paris, 1919. Issue 1 of newspaper "Общее дело" (1917) Articles