BACKSTAGE

Passionate Love was able to throw away Social Barriers, but submitted to the Hand of Destiny

Leonid Sakharov

The historical adventure novel "Backstage" tells of events shortly after the usurpation of power in the Russian Empire by the Bolsheviks, which followed the successive collapse of first the monarchy and then democracy as a result of defeat in the Great War in 1917.
  In the spring of 1918, the head of government, Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin), instructs the Chairman of the Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution, Felix Dzerzhinsky, to carry out a top secret operation, the "Kaiser's Memorandum", to guarantee, without the possibility of restoration, the interruption of the hereditary monarchy in Russia, physically eliminating all members of the Romanov family and destroying all evidence of the Bolsheviks' collaboration with the German Empire, Russia's enemy in the Great War (First World War).
  Dzerzhinsky involves the Socialist Revolutionary Yakov Blumkin in the practical implementation of the task, who puts the plan into action.
  A series of seemingly unrelated events: the uprising of the Czechoslovak Corps, the murder of the German Ambassador Mirbach, the murder of the Successor of Tsar Mikhail, the execution of the former Tsar Nicholas II, the murder of the Grand Dukes in Alapayevsk, the murder of Uritsky in Petrograd and the staging of an assassination attempt on Lenin, the search of the Entente embassies, the murder of the German Communists Luxemburg and Liebknecht in Germany, the prevention of the transfer of funds from Tsarist Russia to the White Guards in Paris, all this was organized by Yakov Blumkin. The fulfillment of the mission was complicated by crazy love at first sight. Having met the Grand Duchess Natalia Paley on the street, the Chekist Yakov Blumkin promised to save her brother, the poet Vladimir, which he did, replacing him in Alapayevsk with a guard from the captured Austrians. Under the guise of Richard Sorge, he managed to carry out the main operation of his life - saving the world from nuclear destruction, directing the aggression of the Japanese Empire along the Southern Option, which prevented the defeat of the USSR in the first year of World War II. The destiny of Blumkin-Sorge made World War II the first atomic, which served as a kind of vaccination against a full-scale nuclear war that would have destroyed all life in the Universe.
The story of Grand Duchess Natalia Paley runs through the entire book, who became the first supermodel and the inspiration for two great writers, Remarque and Exupery.

Contact author of the book: lsakharov@leokrut.com