Dmitry Alexandrovich Bystrolёtov is a lawyer, doctor, artist, writer, and polyglot who knew 19 languages—and an illegal scout who devoted 13 years of his life to Soviet intelligence, spent 18 years in Stalinist camps, and left behind his memoirs, evidence, and thoughts in a cycle of books under the overall title “The Feast of the Immortals.”
As an illegal scout, the author of “The Feast of the Immortals” had to visit the USA, Italy, Austria, Spain, Greece, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Holland under cover as a Dutch artist, Hans Gelleni, and a Hungarian count, Pereli de Caralgazà—American gangster Joe Perráli, a Brazilian businessman, an English lord. In our time, at a spy museum in the USA, there is an exhibition dedicated to him, where besides “SUPER-SPY” he isn’t called anything else. Some pages of his illegal work are still not declassified.