The short life of Yakov Blumkin (1900–1929) still remains a string of mysteries, secrets, “blank spots”, although he was friends, was at enmity, and had tables with many writers, among them Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Georgy Ivanov... Some left Others included memoirs about him, similar to pamphlets, in their works: “A man, among a crowd of people / Who shot the imperial ambassador, / Came up to shake my hand, / To thank me for my poems” (N. Gumilyov). And this - the murder of the German ambassador von Mirbach in 1918, which launched the uprising of the left Socialist Revolutionaries against the Bolshevik government (as is commonly believed) - is the only fact of his biography that is not subject to doubt. The rest of Blumkin’s incredible adventures and guises - a security officer, an organizer of the revolution in Persia, a “dictator” of Mongolia, a treasure hunter of Baron Ungern, a military adviser in China, an illegal Soviet intelligence officer in the Middle East, a victim of betrayal of his beloved woman - are perceived as a mythology created not without his participation. Who was he really - a revolutionary, adventurer, intelligence officer, provocateur, secret agent of Trotsky, who was expelled from the USSR? Evgeniy Matonin, a famous documentary filmmaker, author of the books “Josip Broz Tito”, “Nikola Tesla” (“ZhZL”), made perhaps the first attempt to restore, on the basis of surviving documents, historical studies of the Russian revolution, memoirs, the real biography of this colorful “hero” of his time, which represented all the contradictions of the era of great upheavals. sign of information products 16+