Mr. Kochek's Advertising Agency

15 hrs. 29 min.

Language Russian

Author Vartkes Tevekелyan

Narrator Larisa Yurova

Description

The novel “The Publicity Office of Mr. Kochek” was the author’s last major work. In it, the writer describes real events that took place in Germany and France in the 1930s, in which a Soviet intelligence agent V. Zarubin took part—operating under the name of a Czechoslovak citizen, Yaroslav Kochek—and his wife.

In early spring of 1931, a small steamship flew out of Piraeus port under the Greek flag, making regular trips between the Balkans and the southern coast of France. The only passengers aboard were a married couple from the Czechoslovak Republic. The young people continued their honeymoon across Europe. They spent about a month in Switzerland. Then they visited the land of ancient Greece—toured the immortal ruins of the Parthenon, admiring the genius of a people who gave so much to humanity in all branches of art and science, admired the fiery blue of the sea bordering the shores of Greece, and now they were traveling to France.