The article deals with the activities of General A.S. Potapov, one of the most mysterious and adventurous figures in the history of the Great Russian Revolution. Historians are still discussing who this man was and what role he played in the February Revolution, the Civil war in the Far East and the first attempts to establish Soviet-Chinese relations. At the same time, the story of his adventures and contacts in China allows to shed light on the little-known ups and downs of the ideological and organizational evolution of the Chinese leftist movements in the 1910–1920 s and on the peculiarities of the perception of the Russian revolution in China.
China, Russia, A.S. Potapov, Sun Yat-sen, Chen Jungming, Liang Bingxian, Anarchists, Socialists, Bolsheviks, Russian Emigration, Anglo-Boer War, Russo-Japanese War, First World War, Great Russian Revolution, February Revolution, Civil War, Far East.