The Counterintelligence Agent

Matvey’s fate turned out harsh. Not a front-line officer—he had been to the front twice, and he didn’t sit out in the rear. He didn’t even get time to rest before he was sent, with an expeditionary corps, to France. There he performed counterintelligence functions. That’s where February Revolution of 1917 caught him. The police were disbanded, the gendarmerie too. To reach home was still far—and how, if he had no money? Together with his comrades, he had to go to the ship’s stokers. And in his hometown, he had to fear acquaintances too—they could turn him in to the new authorities. So he had to become a driver. And soon the Bolsheviks carried out the October coup.