DOUGLAS. See Shpigelglas, Sergei
DPP (British Office of Director of Public Prosecutions), Ref1
DSS (British Defense Security Service), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Dzerzhinsky, Felix, Ref1, Ref2
ECONOMIST. See Foster, František
“Egmont,” Ref1, Ref2
ERIKA. See Weinstein, Erica
“false flag,” Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Fernandel (French actor), Ref1, Ref2
Foster, František (code name ECONOMIST), Ref1
Four-Power Pact, Ref1
Franco, General, Ref1, Ref2
Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance, Ref1
GADA, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
“Gaetano Monaldi.” See “Monaldi”
Georgiev, Georgy: background of, Ref1
as Bystrolyotov’s friend, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
as Soviet agent, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Gestapo, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Ginzburg, Yevgenia, Ref1, Ref2
Glinsky, Stanislav (code name PETR), Ref1
Goering, Hermann, Ref1, Ref2
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, Ref1
“Golst.” See Samsonov, Nikolai
Gorb, Mikhail, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Gottwald, Clement, Ref1
“Greta.” See “Countess Magritte Brockdorff-Rantzau”
Gumilyov, Lev, Ref1
Gumilyov, Nikolai, Ref1
Gursky, Felix, Ref1
Gursky, Karl (code name MONGOL), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Habert, Henry, Ref1, Ref2
Harvey, John, Captain (code name CHIEF), Ref1
HANS. See Bystrolyotov, code names
“Hans Galleni.” See Bystrolyotov, aliases and covers
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), Ref1
Hendrix, Harville, Ref1
Hérriot, Édouard, Ref1, Ref2
Himmler, Heinrich, Ref1
Hitler, Adolf: coming to power, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Costanzo Ciano and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
French sympathizers of, Ref1
John Simon and, Ref1
as model for Stalin, Ref1, Ref2
Mussolini and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
persecution of Jews, Ref1
warmonger, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
“Ignace Reiss.” See Poretsky, Ignatii
Inostrantsev, General, Ref1, Ref2
Ivanov, Konstantin, Ref1, Ref2
Ivanova, Anna Mikhailovna: appearance and manners of, Ref1
background of, Ref1
and Bystrolyotov, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
death of, Ref1
illness of, Ref1, Ref2
Kavetsky and, Ref1
life after camps, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Jakobson, Roman, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
“Joe Perelly.” See Bystrolyotov, aliases and covers
“Josef Schwerma.” See Bystrolyotov, aliases and covers
JOSEPH. See Lemoine, Rodolphe
Kaganovich, Moisei, Ref1
Kamyshlag, Ref1
Kaplan, Fanya, Ref1
Kaverin, Veniamin, Ref1
Kavetsky, Evgeny (Zhenya), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Kaze, Captain, Ref1, Ref2
Kedrov, Igor, Ref1, Ref2
Kemp (code name ROLAND), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Kerensky, Alexander, Ref1
Khrushchev, Nikita, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
KIN. See Bazarov, Boris
King, John Herbert, Captain (code name MAG), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Kokorina, Ref1
Kollontai, Alexandra, Ref1
Krandievskaya, Anastasia, Ref1
Krasnoyarsk Raspred (Prisoner Distribution Center), Ref1, Ref2
Krivitsky, Walter, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Kschessinskaya, Mathilde, Ref1
Kudish, Ref1, Ref2
La Argentina (flamenco dancer), Ref1
Larina, Anna, Ref1
LAROCHE.See Aucouturier, Marie-Eliane
Lausanne Conference, Ref1, Ref2
League of Nations, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Lefortovo prison, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Lemoine, Rodolphe (code names JOSEPH, REX), Ref1, Ref2
Lenin: attempted murder of, Ref1
death of, Ref1
ideology of, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
as object of veneration, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
and October revolution, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
as Soviet leader, Ref1
works of, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Leonov, A. G., Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Leppin, Joseph (code name PEEP):
background of, Ref1
called back to Moscow, Ref1
death of, Ref1
marriage to Weinstein, Ref1
in operations involving: American secrets, Ref1
de Ry, Ref1, Ref2
Foster, Ref1, Ref2
“Monaldi,” Ref1, Ref2
Müller, Ref1
Oldham, Ref1, Ref2
smuggling weaponry, Ref1
Litvinov, Maxim, Ref1, Ref2
Liuonga, Ref1, Ref2
MacDonald, Ramsay, Ref1
Maclean, Donald, Ref1
MADAM. See Oldham, Lucy
MAG. See King, John Herbert, Captain
MAKAR. See Zhuravlyov, Pavel
Mally, Lidia, Ref1
Mally, Theodor (alias “Lajos Batory”): arrest and death of, Ref1
background of, Ref1
as Bystrolyotov’s boss, Ref1, Ref2
called back to Moscow, Ref1, Ref2
in France, Ref1
Kavetsky and, Ref1
link to photo of, Ref1
love life of, Ref1
in operations involving: Florica, Ref1
Foster, Ref1
French Nazi sympathizers, Ref1
Müller, Ref1
Oldham, Ref1
smuggling weaponry, Ref1
“Vivaldi,” Ref1
Manevich, Lev, Ref1, Ref2
Mariinsk Recovery Camp, Ref1
Markin, Valentin, Ref1
Marxism, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Masaryk, Tomaš, Ref1, Ref2
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, Ref1, Ref2
Medvedev, Stepan, Ref1, Ref2
Mein Kampf, 143, Ref1
MI5, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Milashov, Sergei Sergeevich, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9
MILENA. See Shelmatova, Maria Milena Iolanta
Miller, E. K., General, Ref1
“Monaldi,” Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
MONGOL. See Gursky, Karl Mukhina, Dr., Ref1
Müller, Dorothea (Doris), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Mussolini, Benito: advisers’ reports of, Ref1
coming to power, Ref1
diplomacy of, Ref1
Franco and, Ref1
Hitler and, Ref1, Ref2
Stalin and, Ref1
Mussolini, Edda, Ref1
Nesterenko, Dr., Ref1
Nicholas II, Ref1
Nietzsche, Friedrich, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Norillag (Norilsk camp), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
“Nosik.” See de Ry, Giovanni
Nosova, Dr., Ref1
Oldham, Ernest Holloway (alias “Charlie,” code name ARNO):
alcoholism of, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Bazarov and, Ref1, Ref2
Bystrolyotov and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
death of, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
identity of, Ref1, Ref2
replacement for, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Oldham, Lucy (code name MADAM):
Ernest Oldham’s alcoholism and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
informs on Ernest Oldham, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Kemp and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
meets Bystrolyotov, Ref1
suicide of, Ref1
travels with Ernest Oldham, Ref1, Ref2
Orlov, Alexander, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Ostrovsky, Mikhail, Ref1
Ostrovsky, Nikolai, Ref1
Papen, Franz von, Ref1, Ref2
Passov, Zalman, Ref1
Paul-Boncour, Joseph, Ref1
PEEP. See Leppin, Joseph
Peter the Great, Ref1, Ref2
PETR. See Glinsky, Stanislav
Philby, Kim, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Piatakov, Yuri, Ref1
Pieck, Henri Christian (code name COOPER), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Politburo, Ref1, Ref2
Pollack, Israel, Ref1
Poretsky, Elsa, Ref1, Ref2
Poretsky, Ignatii (alias “Ignace Reiss” and “Walter Scott,” code name RAYMOND), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Pravda, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Prokhorov-Pustover, Ref1
Pushkin, Alexander, Ref1, Ref2
Putin, Vladimir, Ref1, Ref2
Radek, Ref1, Ref2
Raskolnikov, Fyodor, Ref1
RAYMOND. See Poretsky, Ignatii
REX. See Lemoine, Rodolphe
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, Ref1
ROLAND. See Kemp Rome-Berlin Axis, Ref1, Ref2
“Rona Dubska.” See Shelmatova, Maria Milena Iolanta
“Rona Esterhazy.”See Shelmatova, Maria Milena Iolanta
Rosenblum, Anna, Ref1, Ref2
“Rossi.” See de Ry, Giovanni
ROSSI. See de Ry, Giovanni
Rudov, Ref1
Rumbold, Sir Horace (British ambassador in Berlin), Ref1
Russian Action program, Ref1, Ref2
Russian Law Faculty in Prague, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Rybalcheko, Vassily, Ref1
Rykov, Ref1, Ref2
Samsonov, Nikolai (alias “Golst,” code name SEMYON): arrest and death, Ref1
background of, Ref1
Bystrolyotov and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
legal cover of, Ref1
on nature of spy work, Ref1
“Sasha-Masha,” Ref1
Schiller, Friedrich, Ref1, Ref2
Schleicher, General, Ref1
SEMYON. See Samsonov, Nikolai
Serov, Ivan, General, Ref1
Sharansky, Natan, Ref1
SHELLEY (unnamed British Foreign Offi ce official), Ref1
Shelmat, Josef, Ref1
Shelmatova (Synkova), Bozhena, Ref1, Ref2
Shelmatova, Maria Milena Iolanta (aliases “Rona Dubska,” “Countess Rona Esterhazy,” code name MILENA): family background of, Ref1
marries Bystrolyotov, Ref1, Ref2
illness of, Ref1
and Isolde Cameron, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
recruited as Soviet agent, Ref1
imprisoned in Austria, Ref1
released from prison, Ref1
surgery in Berlin, Ref1
settles in Davos, Ref1
comes to London, Ref1
in “Vivaldi” operation, Ref1, Ref2
with Isolde again, Ref1
leaves for Moscow, Ref1
resumes marriage, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
as wife of political prisoner, Ref1, Ref2
visits Bystrolyotov in camps, Ref1
death of, Ref1
Shpigelglas, Sergei (code name DOUGLAS), Ref1, Ref2
Shukshin, Fyodor, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Shvernik, Nikolai, Ref1
Siblag, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Simon, John (British Foreign Secretary), Ref1, Ref2
Sinyavsky, Andrei, Ref1, Ref2
“Sir Robert Grenville.” See Bystrolyotov, aliases and covers
Skirmunt, Sergei, Ref1
Skoblin, General N. B., Ref1
Škoda (plants), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Slutsky, Abram, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
link to photo of, Ref1
SMERSH, Ref1
Sokolnikov, Grigori, Ref1
Solovyov, A. P., Ref1, Ref2
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Sorge, Richard, Ref1
Spada, Emile (Emilio), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Spanish civil war, Ref1
Stalin, Joseph: and Bystrolyotov, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
and camp terms, Ref1
coming to power, Ref1
diplomacy and, Ref1, Ref2
and “enemies of the people,” Ref1
and history books, Ref1
and intelligence data, Ref1, Ref2
and Mussolini, Ref1
and purges, Ref1
and Putin, Ref1
and Raskolnikov, Ref1
and sexual freedom, Ref1
show trials, Ref1
Solovyov and, Ref1
terror and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Stanley, Henry Morton, Ref1
Sudoplatov, Pavel, Ref1
Sukhanovka prison, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Sukhanovka Prisoner Pretransport Post, Ref1
Suslovo camp, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Tikhonov, Vyacheslav, Ref1
Titulescu, Florica, Ref1, Ref2
Titulescu, Nicolae, Ref1, Ref2
Tolstoy, Alexander Nikolaevich, Count (assumed father of Dmitri Bystrolyotov), Ref1
Treaty of Rapallo, Ref1, Ref2
Treaty of Versailles, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Trilisser, Mikhail, Ref1
Tsvigun, Semyon K., Ref1
Tupolev, Andrei Nikolaevich, Ref1
Ukrainian Free University, Ref1, Ref2
Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, Ref1
Union of Student Citizens of the USSR Living in Czechoslovakia, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Ustinchenko, Ref1
Vansittart, Sir Robert, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Verlaine, Paul, Ref1
Vertinsky, Alexander, Ref1
Vivaldi, Antonio, Ref1
“Vivaldi,” Colonel, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Voroshilov, Kliment, Ref1, Ref2
Vyshinsky, Andrei, Ref1
Wallenberg, Raoul, Ref1
Wall Street crash, Ref1, Ref2
“Walter Scott.” See Poretsky, Ignatii Wehrmacht, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Weinstein, Erica (code name ERIKA): arrest and death, Ref1
and Bystrolyotov, Ref1
in operations involving: Foster, Ref1
“Monaldi,” Ref1, Ref2
Müller, Ref1
Oldham, Ref1
“Rossi,” Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
smuggling weaponry, Ref1
Wellsted, Raymond, Ref1
Wellsted, Thomas William, Ref1
World War I, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
World War II, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10
Yagoda, Genrich, Ref1, Ref2
Yezhov, Nikolai, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Yurevich, Konstantin (Kotya), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Zhdanov, Andrei, Ref1
Zhukovsky, Vasily, Ref1
Zhuravlyov, Pavel (alias “Dneprov,” code name MAKAR), Ref1, Ref2
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Dmitri Bystrolyotov, circa 1915
Courtesy of Sergei Milashov
Dmitri’s mother, Klavdiya Bystrolyotova, circa 1900
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Bystrolyotov as a sailor, circa spring 1921
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. . . as a helmsman, fall 1921
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Constantinople, ink drawing by Dmitri Bystrolyotov, 1921
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Bystrolyotov in Prague, May 1922
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Bystrolyotov, 1925
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“Countess Fiorella Imperiali” (code name LAROCHE)
Reproduced by permission of Archives du ministère des Affaires étrangères, Nantes (document ID: CADN, Prague, consulat, 17*)
Maria Milena Iolanta Shelmatova (code name MILENA)
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Bystrolyotov, 1926
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Bystrolyotov as “Greek merchant Alexander S. Gallas”
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. . . as “Hungarian Count Lajos József Perelly de Kiralyhaza”
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. . . as “Dutch artist Hans Galleni”
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. . . as “Sir Robert Grenville”
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“Charlie” (code name ARNO)
Reproduced by permission of the UK National Archives Image Library, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, UK (file KV2/808, no. 224891)
“Greta” (code name ORLENOK)
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Bystrolyotov on a reconnaissance mission in Bellinzona, Switzerland, circa 1934
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Bystrolyotov’s portrait of his mother (gouache, 1937)
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Photos from Bystrolyotov’s arrest file, September 18, 1938
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Nikolai Yezhov, People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs (NKVD)
Bystrolyotov’s self-portrait (gouache, 1947)
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Bystrolyotov, before release from the Gulag, 1954
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Bystrolyotov in freedom, 1956
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