“...Russian newspapers remained silent about this shot!L. G. Senyavin informed Count Vasily Perovsky, the Orenburg governor-general: “The reason for the suicide is still a mystery, and I’m afraid that it will remain a mystery...” He prophesied correctly: no matter how much historians later guessed, they never found out about the reasons for Vitkevich’s suicide – at the very crest of his amazing career. And why, before he raised the gun to his head, did he destroy all the papers brought from Kabul and read by Perovsky in Orenburg?..."