She was the favorite singer of the last Russian Tsar. She was the first to bring Russian folk songs to the stage. She was the most popular singer in the white emigration... and became a secret agent of Soviet intelligence. Plevitskaya received fabulous fees, tickets to her performances were sold at exorbitant prices, she was adored, people bowed to her, kissed her hands, threw flowers and jewelry at her feet. The most famous people in Russia supported her. Chaliapin, Sobinov, Korovin, Stanislavsky, Mamontov were friends with her, Prince Yuri Trubetskoy and the formidable Plehve, and the ministers of the court, and the Grand Dukes admired her. Then there was a revolution. Plevitskaya's house was burned down. And for her, wandering began. Sang for white people. Sang for the Reds. In Bolshevik Odessa she was no less popular than she had once been in the Mother See...In 1937, a high-profile trial took place in Paris: the famous Russian singer Nadezhda Plevitskaya was tried. Tried for connections with Soviet intelligence. Because she, together with her husband, Civil War hero General Nikolai Skoblin, organized the kidnapping of Yevgeny Karlovich Miller. Plevitskaya was alone at the trial. Skoblin managed to escape, but she never revealed her husband’s possible whereabouts. She didn't admit to anything at all. She just cried and said: “I swear to God, it’s not my fault! If I’m guilty of anything, it’s only in my love for my husband... For this, judge me!” Nadezhda Plevitskaya received twenty years of hard labor. The fate of Nikolai Skoblin remained unknown. Sign of information products 12+