Nikolai Vladimirovich Skoblin

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Skoblin (1918)

Nikolai Wladimirowitsch Skoblin ( Russian: Николай Владимирович Скоблин , scientific transliteration Nikolaj Vladimirovič Skoblin ; * 1892 ; †?) Was a Russian officer and a victim of Stalinism .

Life

As a former officer in the Tsarist army , Skoblin commanded the Kornilov regiment of the White Army in the Russian Civil War . During the war, he distinguished himself for his bravery, but was also notorious for his cruelty. Captured Red Army soldiers were hanged on the spot by his men .

In the autumn of 1919 he took the singer and his future wife Nadeschda Wassiljewna Plewizkaja in Kursk prisoner. After the end of the civil war, he emigrated via Bulgaria to France , where he was recruited for the Soviet secret service in 1930 . He is also said to have worked for the Gestapo and the Belgian secret service. Together with his wife, he was instrumental in the kidnapping of the tsarist generals Kutepow and Miller, who lived in exile in Paris, to the Soviet Union. The latter, however, had suspected Kutepov due to the mysterious disappearance and, prior to his kidnapping, had left a message stating who he had arranged to meet for the conspiratorial meeting from which he would not return. Skoblin had to flee Paris in September 1937. His further fate is unclear. Occasionally he is with the GPU - agent Orlov associated that suggested in a written report that the volatile Skoblin found refuge on a stealth ship of the Soviet secret service and was thrown on the journey from France to the Soviet Union in the Baltic Sea overboard. Skoblin's wife was arrested in Paris for Miller's disappearance and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment under harsh conditions. She died in Rennes prison in October 1940 .

Vladimir Nabokov processed the life of Skoblin and his wife Nadezhda Plewizkaja in his story The Assistant Director ( Помощник режиссёра ).

Eric Rohmer was inspired by Skoblin's biography for his 2004 film Triple Agent .

literature

  • Wilhelm Hoettl , The Secret Front , Frederick A. Praeger, 1954.
  • Victor Alexandrov, The Tukhachevsky Affair , Prentice-Hall, 1963.
  • Marina Gray: Le général meurt a minuit: l'enlevement des generaux Koutiépov (1930) and Miller (1937) . Paris 1981.
  • Christopher Anderw and Oleg Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story , Harper Collins, 1990.
  • John Costello and Oleg Tsarev, Deadly Illusions , Crown, 1993
  • Igor Lukes, Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler , Oxford University Press, 1996
  • Walter Krivitsky , In Stalin's Secret Service , Enigma Books, 2000
  • Alexander Orlov, The March of Time , St. Ermins Press, 2004.
  • Pavel Sudoplatov , Special Tasks , Little, Brown and Company, 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marina Gray: Le général meurt a minuit: l'enlèvement des généraux Koutiépov (1930) and Miller (1937) . Paris 1981, pp. 226-238.
  2. ^ Thomas Urban : Vladimir Nabokov: Blue Evenings in Berlin. Berlin 1999, pp. 107-108, 182.
  3. ^ Books.google.de Mary-Kay Wilmers : The Eitingons: A Twentieth Century Story . London 2010, p. 245.

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personal data
SURNAME Skoblin, Nikolai Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Скоблин, Николай Владимирович (Russian); Skoblin, Nikolaj Vladimirovič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General in the Russian Civil War and Soviet agent
DATE OF BIRTH 1892
DATE OF DEATH after September 1937