Secret Investigations, or Espionage

9 hrs. 20 min.

Language Russian

Author Nikita Filatov

Narrator Sergey Kirsanov

Description

While he was still alive, Faddey Bulgarin gained a reputation as a bought-and-paid-for reactionary, a denouncer of Pushkin, a stool pigeon, and an envious compulsive reader and writer.

But few people know that he received his first order for bravery before he was even eighteen, and from an early youth he had been an agent of Russian military intelligence; that all of Russia read his novels, and it was he who revealed to readers the literary talents of Gogol and Griboedov; that for many years he successfully led the country’s most popular daily newspaper and is rightfully considered the founder of several directions and genres in domestic journalism.

The mysteries of F.V. Bulgarin’s fate and work are revealed in his book by Nikita Filatov, the author of popular fast-paced novels and the president of the St. Petersburg Detective Club.