Azef

by Roman Gul

Azef - eto dokumentalnyj roman s istoricheskimi personazhami. V nem est sovershenno nezabyvaemye figury. Sam Azef - glava terroristicheskoj organizatsii i odnovremenno agent politsii; voploschenie ottalkivajuschego obraza dvojnogo agenta.Boris Savinkov - glava B.O., figura, privlekajuschaja ne menshe vnimanija, chem figura Azefa. On - dvorjanin, dendi, poet i v to zhe vremja ubezhdennyj revoljutsioner. Drugie mnogochislennye dejstvujuschie litsa romana pokazany ne menee u kazhdogo svoj kharakter, svoi idei i svoi mechty. Ispolzovav v kachestve faktury dejstvitelnost, avtor sumel sozdat khudozhestvennye obrazy, kotorye dolgo ne otpuskajut chitatelja posle prochtenija knigi.

416 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

Roman Borisovich Gul (Russian Рома́н Бори́сович Гуль) was a Russian émigré writer who was prominent in the White Movement.

In 1917, after the October Revolution, Gul joined the Kornilov Shock regiment of the White Volunteer Army. He participated in the Ice March and was wounded. He was captured by Ukrainian Army and imprisoned in late 1918. In 1919 he was transferred to Germany and settled in Berlin in 1920 becoming a writer.

Gul emigrated to the USA in 1950 and worked for the Novyy Zhoulnal becoming chief editor in 1966. Gul died of a lung infection in 1986 and is buried in Novo-Diveevo Cemetery in Spring Valley, New York.