Dashing chases, shootouts, wonderful escapes, fearless underground fighters and the tastefully described “decay” of officers in the taverns of White Guard Odessa... And over everything hovers the shadow of the mysterious “7 + 2” - an elusive and cold-blooded agent of the Reds in the White Guard counterintelligence. “Kino- novel" by N. Borisov "Ukrasia" not only formed the basis of one of the most successful films of the 1920s. - for the first time in Soviet literature, the author created a memorable image of “his own among strangers,” Stirlitz during the Civil War. In 1937, N. Borisov was shot, the film “Ukrasia” was banned from showing, and the writer’s books disappeared from stores and libraries for many decades.< /p>

Contents: Ukraine. Film-novel.AppendixE. Bagritsky. UkraineA. Sherman. Predecessor of StirlitzNotes