Vasily Biskupsky

Vasily Viktorovich Biskupsky (; ; 27 June 1878 – 17 June 1945) was a general in the Russian and Ukrainian armies who, while in exile in Germany, helped finance Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

Biskupsky's father was the vice-governor of Tomsk. Vasily was forced to leave the Russian Imperial Army after his secret marriage to operetta singer Anastasia Vyaltseva had been made public. (whom he claimed to have concealed in his own apartment after the failed Beer Hall Putsch In 1921, he placed a contract for the assassination of Alexander Kerensky, blaming him for undermining the Russian Empire. However, he was unable to bring about his assassination.

In 1922, Biskupsky's associates Taboritsky and Shabelsky-Bork attempted to kill Paul Miliukov, a major liberal leader. 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. In 1936, Hitler put him in charge of the Russische Vertrauensstelle, a government body dealing with the Russian émigré community. By the end of World War II, he had grown disillusioned with Hitler. He was sacked and briefly imprisoned by the NSDAP.