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-2- 192 He attended the 4-class elementary school in Pardubitz, 4 classes real school and then came to the cadets school in Vienna. Until the year l9o2 he served as an officer in the Austrian army until he took his farewell as an active knight in the same year. He went to Petersburg, where he held the position of fencing master at the military academy. In Russia he often led the name Olek K on st a n t in o wi t s c h. At the beginning of the war he came to the Russian army and served first as captain of the staff in Kiev. After the establishment of the first beginnings of the Czech legion, the so-called Družina, he entered it. In the end of l9l4 however, he was again transferred to the russian armmee and headed in the II. The army at Přemysl as chief of the news division. His further engagement in the war is very questionable. In the year l9l7 he goes to Aberdeen (England) on a diplomatic mission as a courier over Sweden. There he meets with an agent of the Secret Service, the Major D i a - g o n o v_. From England he travelled to Paris, where he worked with the head of the Russian news division there, Count PaulI g n a t e v. Even then he was supposed to have been imprisoned in Paris for an unpaid snow bill. At the beginning of the Russian revolution he allegedly returned to Russia and participated in the fight against the Bolsheviks. He also states that he belonged to the French-English Expedition Corps in Siberia. In the year l9l8 he appears in Archanglsk in magnificent fantasy uniform with numerous English and French orders as Cossack chief. With his activity in Prague he has been proven to begin a chain of crimes, which clearly stamp him as an imposter. In Prague he first used his former references to the Czech legionaries in Russia and