Secrets of My Great-Grandfather. Russian Secret Police in Italy

The author of the book, Alexei Mikhailovich Savenkov, emigrated to Italy at the beginning of the last century and after the revolution remained there forever, in obscurity for relatives. Family legends are gaining other scales when the descendants suddenly found out that Alexei after the arrest was sent to the West as a secret agent of the security officer. The author’s stubborn search shed light on the activities of the great -grandfather among the SSRs before the dissolution of foreign agents in 1917 and his future life. The appendix gives a rare essay "Russian Secret Police in Italy" (1924) Alexei Kolosov, a neighbor of the hero of the book on the Italian colony of the SS, as well as the memories of her writers Boris Zaitsev and Mikhail Osorgin