Time is removing the secrecy stamp from documents that were sternly stamped with the clerical seal “Top Secret” relatively recently. And by opening this veil over the past, we seem to go with you behind the scenes of secret events... The author of the book, Vasily Stavitsky, a professional counterintelligence officer, writer and journalist, has collected unique materials about unknown pages in the lives of Nikolai Gumilyov, Joseph Stalin, Yuri Andropov and many others. The book also presents almost fantastic detective stories from the world of spies, scouts and space aliens.