The Last Noble Gendarme How the Tsar's Last Head of Security and Intelligence Tried to Avert the Russian Revolution【電子書籍】[ Vladimir G. Marinich ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Gripping account of the life of the Russian Tsar's last chief of security and intelligence.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Last Noble Gendarme＜/em＞ is the first biography of Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and his wife, Sofia. Tsar Nicholas II's last chief of security, Globachev was an eyewitness to the seething turmoil in the capital of the Russian Empire. Beginning in 1915 he tried to avert the unrest that grew into a revolution replete with mayhem and violence by cautioning his senior government officials about the growing crisis through meetings and written reports. The incompetence and corruption of his superiors caused Globachev's warnings of an impending disaster to be often disregarded, misunderstood, and sometimes rejected flat out. The warnings of Globachev's security and intelligence agency going unheeded helped lead imperial Russia to its cataclysmic destruction-perhaps a metaphor for our times. Following the revolution, Globachev was detained by the new go．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る