Recruiter. The true story of the legendary illegal immigrant Bystroletov

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Ivan Prosvetov is a historian by education, a journalist, since 2008 he has been an editor of Forbes. Author of the investigative biographies The Godfather of Stirlitz and The Ten Lives of Vasily Yan. The biography of the legendary illegal intelligence officer Dmitry Bystroletov is similar to an action-packed film. The illegitimate son of a count from the Tolstoy family, a sailor who emigrated along with the White Guards, in longing for his homeland, he later accepted the power of the Soviets and voluntarily became its agent in Europe. With amazing dexterity, arrogance and luck, changing identities (a Russian student, a Greek businessman, a Hungarian count, an English lord, a Japanese intelligence agent), he carried out dozens of operations in different countries - from industrial espionage and obtaining foreign intelligence ciphers to recruiting informants and intercepting Hitler's correspondence and Mussolini (for the sake of the latter, he had to marry an Italian colonel ... his own wife). Risking himself daily for the sake of a distant but native country, he lived under masks for more than 10 years - and when he returned home, he fell under the ice rink of 38 and spent the next 16 years in prisons and camps ... The author of a dramatic novel with such a plot would be reproached for excessive fantasy and implausibility: "this does not happen." But the thing is, that's how it was.

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Publication language: Russian

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