Jacob Blumkin
19.99 €
Out of stock
Jacob Blumkin
19.99 €
The short life of Yakov Blumkin (1900-1929) remains a trail of mysteries, secrets, and "blank spots," though he befriended, feuded, and shared tablefuls with many literary figures, including Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, and Georgy Ivanov. Some left memoirs of him that resembled pamphlets, while others included them in their works: "A man, amidst a crowd of people / Who shot the imperial ambassador, / Came to shake my hand, / To thank me for my poems" (N. Gumilyov). And this—the assassination of the German ambassador von Mirbach in 1918, which sparked the Left Socialist Revolutionary uprising against the Bolshevik government (as is commonly believed)—is the only fact of his biography that is beyond doubt.
Blumkin's other incredible adventures and guises—a Chekist, the organizer of a revolution in Persia, the "dictator" of Mongolia, the seeker of Baron Ungern's treasure, a military adviser in China, an illegal Soviet spy in the Middle East, the victim of his beloved's betrayal—are perceived as mythology, created with his own participation. So who was he really—a revolutionary, an adventurer, an intelligence agent, a provocateur, a secret agent for Trotsky, who was exiled from the USSR?
Yevgeny Matonin, a renowned documentary filmmaker and author of the books "Josip Broz Tito" and "Nikola Tesla" (ZhZL), has made perhaps the first attempt to reconstruct, based on surviving documents, historical research on the Russian Revolution, and memoirs, the true biography of this colorful "hero" of his time, who embodied all the contradictions of an era of great upheaval.
Blumkin's other incredible adventures and guises—a Chekist, the organizer of a revolution in Persia, the "dictator" of Mongolia, the seeker of Baron Ungern's treasure, a military adviser in China, an illegal Soviet spy in the Middle East, the victim of his beloved's betrayal—are perceived as mythology, created with his own participation. So who was he really—a revolutionary, an adventurer, an intelligence agent, a provocateur, a secret agent for Trotsky, who was exiled from the USSR?
Yevgeny Matonin, a renowned documentary filmmaker and author of the books "Josip Broz Tito" and "Nikola Tesla" (ZhZL), has made perhaps the first attempt to reconstruct, based on surviving documents, historical research on the Russian Revolution, and memoirs, the true biography of this colorful "hero" of his time, who embodied all the contradictions of an era of great upheaval.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series The lives of remarkable people