Biography of Sydney Reili

Belated epitaph. Savchenko V. Adventurers of the Civil War. Dead swell. Robin Bruce Loccurt. Sydney Reili is a spy of legend of the XX century. Andrew Cook. In the secret service of His Majesty. A copy of the Reilly report, on September, what caused a growing interest in the prototype of the famous agent - the British intelligence officer Sydney Reili? A wreath with an inscription like “from Russia - with love” will never appear on his grave, even if one of the home -grown crazy fans of James Bond, the prototype of which was Ruleili, really wanted to.

But the graves - no. Maybe we would not have remembered our compatriot if a strange excitement had not suddenly arose around his name. Historians, writers, media in different countries demonstrate such synchronized collective fertility in terms of the painting of Reili that James Bond risks remaining a pale reflection of the original. Recently, three books have been published about Reilly.

One with us. This is the translation of the book of Lockcart Jr., the same British diplomat Bruce Loccant, who was headed by the “conspiracy of the ambassadors” against the Bolshevik government and the memories of the last wife of Reilly in the year. Almost in parallel in England and the United States two books were published. The American professor of history Richard Spence entitled his work “Do not believe anyone” this is exactly the motto of Sydney Reilly placed on his registered mail paper.

But who to believe? Maybe the grown radio "Freedom", which devoted a whole cycle of transmission to the work of Spence? Or BBC, who, of course, sympathizes with his compatriot Cook? Readers know him from many books - including about Arthur Artuzov "Award for Fidelity - Execution." It was Artuzov who was the organizer of a large -scale Chekist operation "Trust", aimed at paralyzing a counter -revolutionary monarchical and military emigration.

During the operation, I fell into a trap of Sydney Reili set by the Chekists. But unfortunately, no one can justify with a sufficient degree of persuasiveness why this or that historical character of the past era, which is, is, which, say, to, and even a thousand years, suddenly awakens increased public attention. It is just as difficult - if we take a certain temporary cut - explain, for example, why some personalities leave a deep mark in oral folk art, while others leave.

The figure of Reilly is very entertaining on its own. An outstanding, talented in many respects and at the same time - a riddle on a riddle. But this figure is in a certain way inscribed in due time. So, the story of Reili, upon careful examination, can give us another key to understanding that era. And Russia. People like Reilly make me think that in certain circumstances, in certain circumstances, it is actually capable of showing the world a whole series of personalities that could not be called ordinary, even strange, but in any case bright.

This happens most often in vague moments of history. Naturally, royal Russia. He was born in Kherson in a Jewish family of medium wealth under the surname Rosenblum. One way or another, a significant part of his life was connected with Russia. Yes, and it ended - in a rather sad way - in Moscow, in Sokolniki. So, without any internal fluctuations, I put Reilly on a par with a row out, if you want, wild, creatures of Russian land.

These are very different people. Well, for example, Gapon is a figure, by the way, very, very complicated and unusual. I at one time got acquainted with his biography in sufficient detail. It is also ambiguous and outstanding - Makhno. Such is Kotovsky. Yes, finally, Rasputin and all this circle of people, which were unmarried into a chain, in one country and at about the same time.

Who today will list outstanding personalities who have a decisive impact on the fate of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century? But Kotovsky, everyone knows Makhno. Already, if only because it was from him, as many people believe that the writer Jan Fleming “sketched” his James Bond. When you watch the earliest film version of the agent’s adventure, you involuntarily catch yourself thinking that between the first performer of the roles of Bond, actor Shan Connori and Reilly himself, is a kind of external similarity.

He served in the same Mi-6, where Sydney Reilly also served twenty years before. And, of course, the future author of Bondiad was aware of some moments from the biography of the latter. It is possible that Fleming rummaged in archival documents. Of course, Reil did not have a hundredth share of those feats that Agent Fleming made in 15 books made something like an instrument of his work from Reilly.

Remember the fairy tale about cabbage soup? Of course, you can’t cook the cabbage soup from the cabbage soup, but with a known resourceful share, adding meat, potatoes, beam to boiling water, you can cook something edible. And save the ax for subsequent use.As for some external resemblance of Reili - as we know him from the photographs - and actor Sean Connori, then, it seems to me, you correctly noticed it.

I think this is also not by chance. But, I believe, the community of artistic natures even more related.

Reilly had a brilliant gift of reincarnation. He could pass himself both for the German commander and for an employee of a Cheka named Rodinsky with the same degree of persuasiveness. He is almost an icon of the knightly fraternity of a cloak and dagger. But this holy man, if you figure it out, is a killer, a drunkard, a womanizer. Reilly moved to London - it is not known how. We can only guess how he changed his last name after his first marriage concluded in England, because his wife was called Mrs.

Thomas. Releili repuls her from the legal, the legal spouse-Pastor, who was for the version that they had poisoned him together. He was not a drunkard Reilly. But he was a womanizer. He was married three times. But never got divorced. That is, he was at least twice two -wire. And eight to ten women could consider him their husband. Well, he was simply irresistible, something hypnotizing sat in him.

But the essence of the personality of Reili does not become more transparent from this. Myths, myths, but almost the most prolific creator of myths about Reilly was, of course, like no one else, he knew how to confuse traces of his own existence in this world. He did not study anywhere. Neither in Russia nor abroad. Here is the Englishman Andrew Cook, the author of the most serious study about Reilly, dug up the western archives.

And this despite the fact that Reilly stated that he was educated at Germany, at the University of Heidelberg. You know no worse than me how pedantic Germans are in archival affairs. But Reilly in the lists of graduates and even students of the University of Heidelberg did not lit up in any way. But the Germans preserved everything! He did not study, contrary to his own statements, and in other temples of science.

Including at the English Royal Mining Institute. Non -teaching, in a word. Which, however, knew a bunch of languages. There is nothing to talk about Russian. But add German, French, of course, Yiddish. But that's not all. At one time, even in the pre -revolutionary time, Reilly equipped some of his affairs in the Far East and took possession of - at least within the colloquial - Japanese language, Chinese.

If we talk about his English, but we have the opportunity to read the letters of Reilly, then only to an excellent degree: not just a competent, but a magnificent literary language. Reilly without any diplomas mastered not only the basics of commerce, but all its subtleties and wisdom. In the prewar and war years, he earned several hundred thousand dollars on arms supplies from America to Russia.

And then the dollar is approximately ten current.