General Skoblin. The legend of Soviet intelligence

The book of the famous writer Armen Gasparyan tells about Nikolai Vladimirovich Skoblin - the legend of Soviet intelligence. This is the only, according to veterans of the foreign intelligence service of the Russian Federation, the biography of an undeservedly forgotten hero. General Skoblin was a bright person. The hero of the First World War and the Civil Wars, the head of the Kornilov Division, in exile, he becomes one of the leaders of the white movement. Soviet intelligence, which played on the patriotic feelings of Skoblin, managed to recruit it. Until today, the attitude to General Skoblin is ambiguous. For some, he remains a traitor. For others, a person, in conditions of a threat to the country, remaining a Russian patriot. To understand Skoblin, it is worth looking at the Russian emigration, in which nothing has changed after a hundred years - it is enough to recall Khodorkovsky, Chichvarkin and other "those who were careing for Russia". Working on the book, the author studied hundreds of documents and memoirs of people who knew Nikolai Vladimirovich closely, met with Sklin"s relatives. All photos in the book are from the general archive of the general, many are published for the first time