Dr. Jacob Zhitomirsky (party alias Otsov, Okhrana aliases Andre and Daudet) was prominent Bolshevik

Bolshevik

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

 best known for being a secret agent of the Okhrana.

Biography

He was recruited by Okhrana in 1902, while studying in University of Berlin. Zhitomirsky was active in Berlin RSPLP group, reporting its activities to the Russian police, up to year 1907 when Bolsheviks were expelled from Berlin by German authorities and Zhitomirsky moved to Paris.

He attended 5th RSDLP Congress

5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held in London between May 13 and June 1, 1907. The congress was the largest in attendance of the congresses of the unified RSDLP. Thirty-five session of the congress were held in the Brotherhood Church in Hackney, during which...

 in London.

In 1908 he was given twenty 500-ruble notes by the people, involved in the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery

1907 Tiflis bank robbery

The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery, also known as the Yerevan Square expropriation, was an armed robbery by Bolshevik revolutionaries of a bank cash shipment in the Georgian city of Tiflis . The robbery occurred on 26 June 1907 in Yerevan Square...

. Unable to exchange notes, he passed this money to the vice-director of the Russian Department of Police Vissarionov, during his visit to Paris.

During the World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 he served as a doctor with the Russian Expeditionary Force in France

Russian Expeditionary Force in France

The Russian Expeditionary Force was a World War I military force sent to France by the Russian Empire. In 1915 the French requested that Russian troops be sent to fight alongside their own army on the Western Front. Initially they asked for 300,000 men, an absurdly high figure, probably based on...

and reported about revolutionary propaganda among the Russian troops.

Sources

• V.K. Agafonov. Zagranichnaia okhranka.
• E. Shcherbakova. Agenturnaia Rabota Politicheskoi Politsii Rossiiskoi Imperii : Sbornik Dokumentov : 1880-1917 [The Intelligence service in the political police of the Russian Empire : Document collection: 1880-1917]. Moscow, St. Petersburg: AIRO-XXI, Dmitrii Bulanin, 2006. ISBN 5910220241.