Vasily Shulgin

Vasily Shulgin entered the story as a figure is extremely contradictory. At the same time, it was a typical representative of the Russian imperial elite of the beginning of the twentieth century. Being a convinced monarchist and nationalist, he took an active part in attempts to liberalize public administration, which ended with a conspiracy against the king and the crash of the empire. Schulgin accepted the renunciation of Nikolai II, he entered the group of heads of the February Revolution, participated in the organization of the Belog Guard resistance of the October Revolution, was a member of the governments of Denikin and Wrangel"s governments, created an extensive intelligence organization, led the editorial board of newspapers, was a bright publicist and writer. The author of the books" days", "1920 year", "three capitals"," what we do not like them. About anti-Semitism in Russia, etc. In December 1944, he was arrested in Yugoslavia to the army counterintelligence of Smerd, sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment for anti-Soviet activities. After the amnesty in 1956 he was engaged in literary activities, he became the hero of the famous film "before the History of History", advised scientists, cultural figures, writers - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nikolai Yakovleva, Mark Kasvinova, Dmitry Zhukova, Nikolai Foxov, Ilya Glazunov, Sergey Kolosov, Friedrich Ermler , Andrei Smirnova and others. Svyatoslav Rybas considers the life path of Schulgin against the background of the crisis phenomena of the Russian historical process, which makes this book ending in his works - "Stolypin", "General Kutepov", "Stalin", "Gromyko", published in the Life of Wonderful People "series