Red shaitan

Everyone watched the cult film "The White Sun of the Desert. Everyone remembers the plot and heroes, and many phrases became winged. However, few people know that one of the characters was not fictional. Mikhail Dmitrievich Pospelov became the prototype of the head of the customs of Vereshchagin. And he lived the life of a much longer, happier and more heroic than his screen character. “Red Shaitan” all the bandits, basmachi and smugglers were afraid, he was respected by the whole Turkestan. His bright biography is the story of a real patriot, a real Russian officer, a story of heroic life, which ended well. And it was written not just by a writer, a master of artistic biographies, the author of such books as the “Cleaner "," Saboteurs", "Sea Angel". The author is also a relative of the main character of the book of M. D. Pospelov