i was born in 1907 in the tula province in a small railway settlement. my father served as an assistant to the station master and we somehow survived the revolution and the beginning of the civil war. in 1920 my father passed away, he died of tuberculosis. my mother, two younger brothers and... i moved to smolensk. hard times came for us, but soon , through acquaintances, i was hired to work in the library of a military unit, and just two years later i became a political instructor in a colony for juvenile delinquents. in mid-1928, i transferred to moscow, where i soon began working as a typist in the ogpu. and six months later

i was unexpectedly summoned for a talk in the foreign intelligence department. hello, ivan andreevich, did you summon me? zoya ivanovna? ​​he summoned, he summoned. sit down, let's have some tea, intelligence officer. well, what am i? an intelligence officer, i'm just an ordinary secretary of the ogpu, i was a secretary, and i became an intelligence officer, well, i'm like, what can i do, you can do it, you can do it, we 've been keeping an eye on you for a long time. you have a strong root, our

root is soviet, so from now on you 'll become an intelligence officer, and what should i do? you'll go to harbin, well that's in china, that's right, in china, you'll work for an oil syndicate, that'll be your cover and a legal opportunity for intelligence work when i go out and... you're so quick, soon, but first you'll go through training, passwords, reviews, hiding places, safe houses, and so on, in general, everything that an intelligence officer needs to know, there are objections, there are no objections, that's great, you'll start your internship immediately, my first baptism of fire, as an employee of foreign intelligence, was in china.

harbin, then i was sent to latvia to get used to european life, this was already in 1932, and my experience, although small, told me that i was being prepared for some important mission abroad, it happened, you will go to switzerland, he works in the general staff, collaborates with the germans, that's the orientation on him. you will meet and become his mistress. mistress? yes, we need information about germany's intentions regarding france and switzerland. first of all, switzerland, and

it is necessary to become a mistress, without this no way, yes, it is necessary, without this you will not receive the necessary information, i understand all the peculiarities of my profession, but this is an order, if you insist, i will shoot myself. shoot yourself? yes, i will shoot myself. true, first i will still carry out your order. i will go to geneva, become the general's mistress. i will carry out your task, and then i will put a bullet in my forehead. but this is not professional. i can become a baroness on order.

"a statesman, they will tell you to throw yourself into the fire, and you must throw yourself, big deal, a mistress, this is a state task, swashto will be, surprisingly, but the management met me halfway, they changed the task legend and sent me to germany

to berlin, everything was going well until one unforeseen situation arose, i could not extend. i feel, apparently, it's nervous, i would please, sit down, doctor, but i advised you so badly to rest, ah, i was in baden-baden, was in karlovy vary, was even in bordiyevsk. fonts, the waters do not help me, doctor, you are my last hope, your nasal septum is slightly crooked, but it can't cause much inconvenience, doctor, i'm not mistaken about you, it's the damned

nasal septum, all my relatives died from a deviated septum. "you see, science knows of no cases of death from a deviated septum, and yet my grandmother died from this disease, doctor, you can't refuse me, you have to save my life, your life is out of any danger, you're just too..." emotional, as i understand correctly, if the septum is deviated, it needs to be straightened. my husband told me not to spare any expense for my health.

i had to make this sacrifice for the sake of successfully completing the task. i admit to you, this is a rather rare case in my medical practice. well, let's see, mouth , open, wider, very good, it will hurt a little, be patient, that's it, after the operation i suffered from unbearable pain for several days, it seemed that all my brains were gouged out because of my head, but, considering my postoperative... the germans generously extended my visa, everything went well, everything is great, bed rest, at least a week three, i stayed in germany, completed the task and only then returned to moscow, so

what about the syrup, please? you are the last, not the last, i am the last, your change, next, please, what do you want double syrup, please, 20 kopecks from you? take it, you , citizen, me too, please, syrup, 20 kopecks from you. forgive me, citizen. i don't have change, look for some change, and i don't have any change either, comrades, no one will change 5 rubles, young man, excuse me, please, you won't change 5 rubles, i can't change them,

i can put it on hold, well thank you, thank you, please, next, tell me how i can repay you, what are you, what's your name, for... but you will have such an opportunity, only later, magamaev, today on the first, in the new season on the first, great neighbor, you're moving in, great, neighbor, we're moving in, and you don't remember how... this hole of ours is called, they say, you've gone too far with your neighbor, listen, remember, you taught me

about the village, morality, this evil wisdom, and where is it all, where, if my neighbor is climbing on my wife, brazenly, stupidly climbing on my wife, and what should i do, i can't live without you, the premiere, on monday on the first, the neighbors have become somewhat unfriendly, they refused the bathhouse, i'm disgusted, or what, there's no point in imposing myself on them, they don't want to, no need,

it's good to relax next to you, whatever you want, will you allow me to relax next to you, please, sit down, but i prefer solitude, why did you mix up the password? i didn't mix it up, i just saw a pretty woman. i decided to joke, found a place and time for jokes, everything is complicated here,

but it seems to me that this is not the whole amount, as not everything, here is everything we got from the center, here is not the whole amount, 20 kopecks are missing. what other twenty kopecks for a soda in moscow, only then did i remember that fleeting meeting in moscow almost 3 years ago, i can borrow, well thank you, i don’t have twenty kopecks again, 20 finnish penalties will do, no, it won’t do, you will remain my debtor, let’s get acquainted, i am boris rybkin, your wife, zoya voskresenskaya, with

boris rybkin, aka boris yartsev, i had to work quite often, our relationship became more and more day by day strained, it was especially difficult because in some operations i had to play the role of his wife, at 12:20 andrey will be standing. near the turnoff to wammierve, you stop the car, i'll get out and check if there 's a tail, we take andrey into the car, i get behind the wheel, and we go to a picnic, you've repeated this for the fifth time, in your opinion, i'm a complete idiot, and look at the road, and in general you have a disgusting , repulsive character, i have, and you, you give the impression of an extremely frivolous person. i'm constantly it seems that you are about to fail the operation, nevertheless, you pick on me over every little thing, yes, because you, i, the snow

queen, and do not forget, my dear wife, to call me informally, priandrea, and to look at me tenderly, yeah, you won’t get it, this is an order, i asked the center to recall me, we with... won’t work together, what a coincidence, i also sent a request to transfer you to another place. inform moscow, arrived without incident stayed with pavlo. pavlo is convinced that i am a representative of the ukrainian anti-soviet

underground. what is the task? infiltration into the aun under the sight of a liaison officer on the other side, forgive me for chewing all the time, your diplomats are well fed, and our ukrainian nationalists are hungry, i will feed you at meetings, by the way, a blister of excellent swiss chocolate, yeah, on the condition that after it you eat a clove of garlic, garlic, garlic, garlic, a half-beggar from aun cannot... smell like expensive swiss chocolate, well , i can't smell like garlic in the presence of such a beautiful woman, and you too, i'm not a woman, i'm the deputy resident, eat and don't object, well boris, at first i was envious,

i snatched some beauty, and now i can imagine what kind of terror you have at home, that 's how i suffer. nadya, come in, what are you allowing yourself to do, excuse me, get dressed faster, by god, no one is looking at you... you can turn around, andrey is urgently calling you for a meeting. what happened? tell the center that by order of the uun leadership, i am returning to ukraine, i will continue my illegal

activities there in the underground, the new orientation is to be friends with the germans. the ukrainians really hope for them, they dream of how in the event war, they will end up under the fascists, yes, in case of war we will get our fill from the ukrainians, i hope that before the war we will sort out the sauna, i personally do everything for this, as you go across the border, across the finnish-soviet border i will be led by a colonel of the pitlyurovsky army, roman sushko. sushko, sushko, a specialist in sabotage and terrorism? yes, yes, yes, he is the most professional to kill himself. i suspect that he has the task of eliminating me. you are going without a weapon. naturally, the liaison is not supposed to. but

if... "if he kills me with a dryer, then i will be exposed, our operation failed, we think we lost the game with ukrainian nationalists , it will take a lot of time to introduce a new person into aun, why are you looking at me like that, don't bury me ahead of time, where is my chocolate with garlic, yes, well , to spoil all the fun, of course, pavel, i want you to remember that you are only 31 years old, here is your chocolate, as if

you are older. women mature earlier, andrey disappeared while crossing the border, a week passed in anxious anticipation, i was sure that sushko killed andrey after all, suddenly rybkin made an appointment with me, and for some reason again in the park. i have good news, everything is fine, andrey is alive, he was detained at the border, he is in a finnish prison, now all measures are being taken to free him. what do you allow yourself, comrade? and what do i allow myself? let's explain?

let's explain. has something been bothering you lately? yes, it has. i am not indifferent to a woman who does not pay any attention to me. and who is she? and you , as an experienced intelligence officer, are here, link, i ask for your hand in marriage, and what will they say at the center? and what does the center have to do with it? you are a resident, and i am your deputy, the center is not encouraged.

at the end of 1936, boris and i became husband and wife. the task is simple, practically courier, you go to... check into a hotel, give anton's group six passports and codes, everything , everything to call anton, go to the dentist at the address karl gustavson 352, password,

i need to make six gold crowns on my front teeth, i hope i won't have to put crowns on healthy teeth, no, the doctor will answer, i'm very busy, it's better to do this there. will name the place and time of your meeting with our resident anton, be careful, it has become very dangerous to work in norway, the gestapo has created a fifth column there, i was the one who received the assignment to go to norway, since i had the perfect

cover, the official representative of the tourist. i stayed in a small hotel in the very center of oslu. this is hers, yes, she rents. knock on her door. gentlemen, i ask you, try not to attract the attention of the residents. i have a reputation, you understand. knock on it. okay, okay, but please be more polite. who there? hotel manager. open up, please. excuse me, i'm not dressed. it's okay,

it's okay. we'll wait outside the door. according to the instructions , in case of danger, i should put the code, cut the passports into small pieces and flush them down the toilet. but that's according to the instructions. and i decided to take a risk. like once. a visa in germany played out a whole theatrical performance, madam, we're waiting, gentlemen, how can i help you? good afternoon, madam, may i come in? for some reason? i've never seen anyone barge in like that without an invitation in any hotel in the world to the client's room? is this rudeness? come into the room, we will ask you just a few

questions. that is, you offer me, a lonely lady, to stay alone with you in the room, mr. director, you know that i am the owner of intouristo in finland, so in our hotels we treat clients with respect, let it be known to you, why do you allow such rude attitude towards your clients, they just want to ask you a few questions, i do not want to talk to strange men, i am leaving immediately, in your hotel.

department that supervised our work in moscow, i was soon appointed chief of intelligence in germany. i regularly passed this information up, but apparently, they considered this intelligence disinformation. in mid-may 1941, i was unexpectedly summoned by the head of the main counterintelligence department, commissar fedotov. germany.

no, a group of soloists from the berlin opera ballet. the german ambassador schulenburg is giving a reception in their honor. the stars of our ballet have been invited to the reception. you will be among those invited. in what capacity, as a representative all-union society of cultural relations, here is your invitation, but there may be diplomats there who know me as yartseva, from work in finland, then we will warn you that rybkina is ill, yartseva will be in her place. sewn with

white thread, is there really no one else to send? zoya ivanovna, who better than you, the heads of the german foreign intelligence department, can analyze the situation? no one, of course, if the head of the german foreign intelligence department manages to stop by the hairdresser and change into an evening dress, may i go? go! as soon as i i approached ambassador schulenburg, and the military attaché, general kestling, appeared next to us. i knew that he was the head of german intelligence in moscow. it seemed that he also knew who i was. what do you think, mr. ambassador, could the stars of the berlin opera take part in a joint production of an opera at the bolshoi theatre?

it is not a bad idea, but i am afraid that it has not yet been implemented. mr. ambassador, mrs. rybkina, an employee of soviet intelligence, please ask them to play the waltz. this is, of course, the unsublime philosophy of the magic flute.

with the artists of the bolshoi theatre, yes, this happens once in a lifetime, during the waltz the count unexpectedly led me past a half-open door, behind which i saw a pile of suitcases and a stack of paintings, amazingly, but literally a minute later this beast was closed again, are you getting ready to leave count, no, no, but... however, anything can happen, you are a sad count today, next to such a beauty as you, it is impossible to be sad,

thank you, thank you, very nice, thank you, count, and goodbye, goodbye, i hope we are not saying goodbye, please, i ask, yes, i ask. mr. ambassador, i remind you once again that ms. rybkina is a soviet intelligence officer, what are you saying, a real russian beauty, it's a pity, i'm very sorry, it

's a pity, mr. schulenburg, it's a pity that this was our first, and most likely last dance, this action with the berlin ballet is clearly organized as a distraction, it looks like the german embassy is preparing for evacuation, in one of the rooms suitcases are already packed and there are stacks of paintings, schulenburg danced with me specifically so as to show me all this, he probably knew who i was, that is, by... in fact, he himself gave us this information. yes. count von schulenburg perceived germany's attack on the soviet union as a personal tragedy. later, he even took part in an unsuccessful assassination attempt on hitler and

was sentenced to death in 1945. but all this was later. and then, in mid-may of 1941, i was working on an analytical note that was supposed to go up to stalin himself. this analytical note was quite voluminous, but the summary is short and clear. we are on the brink of war with germany. zoe, maybe maybe, after all, you are over-traumatizing the situation. i was forming an analytical report from all the data coming to my department. and if this is disinformation, specially fabricated and distributed by germany to provoke us into a conflict. no, not dze.

i feel it. hitler is ready for war. and it is about to start. stalin was not convinced by our report, it is nonsense - he said. blev, go and figure it out better. in 5 days on june 22 the war began from the beginning of the war i became an employee of the intelligence and sabotage department, the department trained saboteurs for work, i selected young boys and girls and trained them to be radio operators, paratroopers, snipers and subordinates. one of the organizers of the intelligence department of sabotage, whom i knew.

they take everyone indiscriminately, yasha serebryansky, a god-given intelligence officer, was accused of obtaining active poisons on assignment from french intelligence to poison, you know who, complete nonsense, you went to beria about him, you went, he was released, now you know where, where? a sanatorium after intensive interrogation methods, i managed to pull out

supposedly before the execution, but many zoya is no longer return, you demand personnel, i don't have them, i don't have them and don't ask, in our department they took everyone in the field, there's no one left, now we understand po... from the soviet information bureau. zoya ivanovna, i can't do this now, everything will work out in the war. honest komsomol. suvorov said, hard in training, easy in battle. yes, i know, i wrote a term paper on suvorov on ifacking go, but for saboteurs hand-to-hand combat is not the main thing, right? "some saboteurs are trained to become snipers, others

as battalion commanders, others as radio operators, but all of them, without exception, self-defense skills are necessary, i can defend myself, i'm a man, a man, okay, the gun is unloaded, yes. on the safety catch? yes, i checked. good. i, a german soldier. coming towards him. when the distance between us is two steps, grab the gun and point it at me. everything is clear. yes.

shot, repeat, yes, repeat, it was a spontaneous shot, free, yes, thank you izo ivanovna, go, thank you, soon this young man was sent to the german rear, he was ambushed, he blew himself up together with surrounded by fascists, the guys i was preparing to be captured did not surrender, i was also eager to go to the front, but they would not let me go. apparently, they were holding me back for some particularly important

task. soviet counterintelligence has established that a foreign intelligence agent is operating in moscow. the chekists only know the agent's call sign trianon. nagonii is on the verge of a coup. if agana overthrows griso, the americans will immediately deploy their bases. the leadership of the committee expects the most decisive actions from us. please read this message. and tell me, does it look like a forgery or not? you, vitaly, you're flying out urgently. we need to find the author of the letter, he's a kgb colonel, here under his own name, report to me about every step of this slavin. it's necessary for the fleet to be redeployed that day. now, when we begin our operation, which we called fuck. this kind of intensity of work is only possible on the eve of events. and here in africa , the russians are to blame for everything. we're only butting in to keep them out. yesterday, london broadcast a very interesting commentary about nagonia for the 12th anniversary of das. this is undoubtedly

the one you're looking for. the legendary serial film based on the novel "tas is authorized to declare next weekend on the first. in october 1941, i was appointed deputy resident in neutral sweden. my legal cover was the position of press secretary of the soviet embassy. "hello, madame yartseva, yes, i 'm listening, this is olafson, the head of the dalecarlian horses, hello, olaf, glad to hear from you, your horses are ready, madame yartseva, when can i pick them up, any day convenient for you, except sunday, of course,

thank you, all the best!" olaf congressional between our residency in norway and sweden. the so-called volver league operated in thirty port cities around the world. this anti-fascist league carried out many different sabotage operations so that as few ships with cargo as possible would get to germany. hello, olaf. hello. they can't wait to see you, please, thank you, come in, please, wait, i'll be right back,

here's a sample, oh, yes, do you like it, it's a miracle, just a miracle, christians. they paint them with natural paint made from copper ore, they cook it at home on the stove, adding rye flour and linseed oil, well, these horses say bring happiness, it is true, we will load all the goods into the car, and in the meantime you read our advertising brochure, thank you.

mrs. yatseva, mrs. yatseva, we have strangers in our village. for let them draw conclusions in moscow, how important this is for germany, and i will definitely pass this on to the center. the germans are preparing to take 15 tons of heavy water from venork to germany. they need it to create a new type of weapon, they can take this cargo by ferries, across lake tinche, in the note, the name of the ferries, their exact schedule, our comrades are waiting for instructions, thank you, catch, we will do everything to prevent this cargo from reaching germany, yeah, for god's sake,

be careful , apparently there are gestapo officers in disguise in this mercedes. thank you, i will be careful, all the best, mrs. yats! swedish national police, i have a few questions for you, madam, but i... press secretary of the soviet embassy, ​​diplomatic immunity exempts me from answering any questions,

in wartime our police have questions for everyone, as you understand, why did you go to the village, what do you mean, why? to the village of nysnos all they only go for one thing, for dalecarlian horses, and you, a diplomat, went so far just for souvenirs? be so kind as to get out of the car, please, i will get out, but only to meet your gallantry, i will ask you to take your handbag, please, be careful. this is a very expensive handbag, excuse me, madam, this is our job, we do not often deal with beautiful women.

you will go with us,

a group of norwegian anti-fascists managed to blow up the ferries that were transporting. a tank with heavy water, and information about the acute the nazis' interest in heavy water was prompted by soviet scientific developments in the field of creating an atomic bomb. in sweden, i worked under the supervision of alexander kalantai. kalantai was a legendary figure, the only woman diplomat of her caliber in the world at that time. in 1943, moscow set us the task of withdrawing.

it seems to me that we should take on the swedish magnates, the weilenberg brothers, who invested most of their capital in finnish industry will lose almost everything if germany, therefore, being with in the coalition, finland, will lose the war. thank you, my dear, please, yes, but they are closely connected to germany. jakob wallenberg received the order of the german eagle from hitler for special services, and his brother markus helps to hide fascist capital in latin american countries. the center believes that you and i should be able to persuade the wallenberg brothers to withdraw finland from the war. they have enough influence for this. they are close friends with the artist karl gerhard, great,

he seems to be in love with you, hopelessly, i will arrange for you to meet with gerhard through marcus wallenberg and i will prepare all the materials for the negotiations. i am sure that he will not tire of your charming political wisdom. especially if all my wisdom is well prepared by you. soon, kalantai and i, thanks to karl gerhard, received an invitation to the walturgy night festival at the estate of marchus

palenberg. i think that your country, madame halantai, can appreciate that we swedes, despite everything, have remained neutral in this war, dear marcus, but you know the german plan to invade sweden, the polar forests, and you you understand perfectly well that this plan was buried by our katyushas, ​​do you agree,

do you agree? but you probably remember that once we violated neutrality in favor of the soviet union, when we sold super-strong swedish statite to your aviation industry, of course, i remember very well that for this violation of neutrality, your personal bank, mr. wallenberg, received an unheard-of high sum in the form of russian platinum, what a blessing that this is unknown... i did not expect that you were so well informed, madame kalantay. besides, you have big investments in finland, our proposal will help to preserve them. almost convinced, perhaps i will go to finland and talk to my friend pasi ki. i think he is the former finnish ambassador to sweden, if i

am not mistaken, mr. valend. absolutely. right, you amaze me? pasikibi is a very influential person in finland, he is against this war, he is an intelligent person, he enjoys well-deserved authority in finland, i will try to convince him that it is vitally important for finland to leave the hitler coalition, because in the event of stalin's victory, finland will simply disappear from the world map, the soviet union is not a colonizer, don't be so scary, we don't plan to be erased. peace even germany, and even more so, i assure you, finland, i am in love with your press secretary, mrs. kalantai, and i am in love with your holidays, negotiations

regarding finland's withdrawal from the hitler coalition began successfully, literally a few weeks later kalantai had a stroke and the negotiations. successfully started were on the verge of collapse. fortunately , everything worked out, soon kalantai went to amendment. comrade stalin values ​​you very highly. he values ​​you. of course, yes. otherwise, i would have long ago been where the rest of the members of the lenin guard were. there, or there. but why so gloomy? let's give him his due. thanks

to stalin, there appeared. in modern history , a woman diplomat, i have been trying all my life to prove to everyone that a woman can be a diplomat no worse, and sometimes better than a man. if you persuade the finns to leave the hitler coalition, you will save millions of lives. not a single male diplomat has even dreamed of such a thing. it's funny that... once upon a time, it was marcus wallenberg's bank sent german money to lenin in petrograd for the revolution, and not without my participation. so, i am more worried about the upcoming negotiations than when i was carrying money for the revolution to lenin across many borders. believe me, my dear. the negotiations lasted for more than one month, but the result was worth it. september 20, 1944.

"finland terminated the alliance with nazi germany and signed an armistice with the soviet union. silence fell on the one and a half thousand kilometers of the soviet-finnish front , our divisions began to be transferred for decisive blow to germany, soon after that i was transferred to moscow, where boris and i had a long-awaited child, a son named alyosha. we celebrated the victory with the whole family, and 2 years later we got our long-awaited vacation for the first time in 12 years and went to czechoslovakia, karlovy vary. this was our honeymoon, 12 years late. "i've never felt so good in my life, i thought and thought here and came up with what

i came up with, when you and i are going to retire, and we'll ask for the most-most, most backward village or district in the country, don't look at me, so let's put all our life experience into it, along with finnish cleanliness, so'. and while our parts are ticking, we still have so much to do. we still have so many years ahead of us, our vacation

was unexpectedly interrupted by a telegram from the center. boris was ordered to urgently leave for baden and wait. assignment, and i was to return to moscow immediately, come in, you called, come in, sit down, will you smoke? no, zoya, you are a courageous woman, you have been through fire, water and copper pipes, take heart, boris died, died,

yesterday he fixed it in a car accident. while on duty, we're sorting everything out now, we'll bury him here, though, you should probably go home now and hold on, we're taking care of the funeral ourselves, and you know what a new addition. from the accordion,

yeah, well, let's go, let's go, how is bayan different , there's a domazhor, do siptokord, dominor, you've confused me even more. you perform in the kauchu genre, right? i don't know, have i already forgotten, have i forgotten? do you like performing more alone or with a team? both ways! oh, how lovely! carefully pour the cooled special dye at an acute angle. using this method, you can isolate lein. acid, that disoxir or nucleic acid, best of all, premiere, today on the first, vodka veda, productlar group, borya,

after your death i ... hot lovers, and then dear old friends, spouses, how happy we were, how good it was for us, thank you dear for happiness, bright, crimson , cloudless, borya, my friend, dear, borya, borenka, why am i writing to you, why am i deceiving myself, how hard it is for me without you, without you, friend, comrade. husband, i am ready

to tear my chest to tear out my heart, so hot and prickly, like a piece of red-hot slag, some kind of devilry, a crumpled car on the side of the road, two corpses in it, one was identified as colonel rybkin, in budapest too. a wrecked car and a corpse in a coat with documents, again colonel rybkin, you and i both know in what cases both are destroyed, so as not to miss, where is the real one, why, why, why? i'll open, i wish you good health, excuse me,

i was ordered to deliver colonel rybkin's suitcase to zoya ivanovna, may i come in, come in. and they asked me to pass on this too. for many years after, i was looking for an answer to

the question of how my husband died. i had no doubt that his death was not accidental. when boris was buried, i was adjusting a flower that had fallen on his face and quite by chance i saw a gaping black wound behind his right ear. it was a bullet hole. and the official conclusion said that death occurred as a result of a basal skull fracture due to a car accident. i tried to find out why my husband was killed, who gave the order, but the truth is i never found out. i don’t remember very well how lived for the next 6 years, and then 1953 came. stalin died. and the arrests began again, almost like in the late thirties.

there is a proposal to nominate the port committee of the intelligence directorate colonel zoya ivanovna rybkina. they think that i can be bought. i beg you. i recuse myself. until his fate is clarified , i have no right to be a member of the port committee, i consider him crystal honest.

comrades, please keep quiet, come in, you were called, sit down, colonel rybkina, i invited you to inform. "we are firing you, do you have any complaints about my work, no complaints, by the way, we thought you were a year short of retirement, but the archives did not preserve the order about your two-year work in china in

the early thirties, so you are 3 years short of retirement, most likely you will be sent to ... " in the gulag, i am 46 years old, 25 of them i gave to intelligence, without a single remark, i lost my husband here, i was twice nominated for the order of lenin, you probably misunderstood me. "i meant that you will work in the gulag, thank you for your trust,

at the very beginning of 1954 i left my son alyosha was taken into the care of his mother and sent to..." to work in a camp for especially dangerous criminals, well, look, karasteleva stole a skein of thread from a predilny factory, but i talked to her, she has five children, no husband, and she stole the thread to darn the children's socks, what kind of criminal is she, call ivanna, of course, and crimea and rome have been seen, but... it's in vain to believe, they are all prisoners, i believe their personal files, let's move on, loshanyuk got 5 years, for which, for being late for work, his wife

died during the siege, the children are in an orphanage, that's right, this loser of yours was late for work on navolye, and now he's talking nonsense here too, that's it... gritsenko, a 15-year sentence for giving the germans chickens and bread under threat of arms, formulated as collaboration with the fascist regime. zoya ivanovna, it wasn't us who put them here, our job is to protect them, so protect them, protect them from real bandits, murderers, robbers, rapists, and you? to put them all under the same brush, let them in, set them up, a crane came to you for help, let me say a word,

no, i wrote, i wrote to kruchev, they refused me, reduce the sentence, what do you want, i am unescorted. these are thugs who cripple themselves to make a fool of themselves, he has a tattoo on his chest that says peace, peace in their language, that is. i will be corrected by execution, he is a criminal, and what about you with them, you should

learn tattoos before digging through papers, an article is easier to see from a tattoo , a scumbag from a bastard, you can always understand faster from a tattoo, i will be corrected by execution, witty, and without wit we can't do anything, do you know what is written on the bus stop before the mines? freedom, and there are barbed wire, barracks, towers, a zone, not only a citizen, a boss, no, it's fine, nothing, i'll make it through, citizen chief, and we'll do the last fitting, olya, what's your sentence, a quarter, i've already served ten, what? for collaborating with the german occupiers, oops,

right now, you, did you collaborate with the germans? citizen chief, i'll tell you, but you still won't believe me, the war has started, i asked to go to the front, they talk about the military registration and enlistment office, you know german, sit in arles, oh, what, they recruited us to help out, everything is as it should be, german officers, restaurants, dances, and so on, i don't understand german, i listen to everything, the scribe reports, i put it down as i was told, i put it down, i put it down, but i don’t utter a word back, and that they never responded, no, did they free our eagle

? i’ll write, and what’s there? come by in a week, the jacket will be ready. okay, i’ll come by.

i tried to help those who, in my opinion, were punished unfairly as much as i could. in 1956, i

returned to moscow and was sent into retirement. i couldn’t sit around doing nothing, so i took up translations. thanks to my work in intelligence, i knew several foreign languages ​​well. why aren’t you sleeping, daughter, and not mom is sleeping, my eyes hurt, oh, stop translating, we'll survive, yeah, why did i learn so many languages, god knows why, mom, i... am a statesman, i've considered myself one all my life, and now

my state doesn't need me. "you need to get married, mom, never again, don't tell me about it, well, i won't, if you don't want to, but you can't do it without real work, daughter, take up your pen, you wrote me such beautiful letters from your business trips, you have a good style, my first story came out, and then my first book. i worked under her maiden name voskresenskaya, and it was symbolic. when i started writing, it was as if i was resurrected. my life had a meaning again. all my books were for children. i did not write a single line about

foreign intelligence, which gave me 25 years of life. my books began to be published. with millions of copies, films were made based on the scripts and books, and no state prize was awarded. almost 10 years passed. the year 1969 came. suddenly, i began to feel very bad and aged sharply. the doctors either kept silent or muttered something unintelligible about age, long-term stress, fatigue. i felt they were not telling me something, let me tell you my fortune, i will tell you, yeah, they were earlier, then don't forget the blue ones, later, let me tell you my fortune,

chrysanthemums, tulips, in the spring, something is not a little strong, rich. beautiful, give me poor old ladies, homeless for food, oh, you have a bad cough, you need to see a doctor, lady, drive her away, she 's been asking for years, not a coincidence, come on, drive her away , drive her away, drive her away, now she'll tell such a fortune, go, come on, not about youth, a gypsy my whole life told, well, give me your pen, well, here, oh, it's coming to you now. well, i told you everything, of course, you'll forget such a hand, there's only one such hand in the world, and you don't remember me,

but i'll tell your fortune better, you'll love the second one more than life, and from a rich man, yeah, i remember, of course, i remember, you were dancing at the market, what a meeting, but debt must be repaid, let's go to the doctor, i'll show you to the nursing home, we'll arrange for someone to help you yourself, oh, my dear, a black spot on you, black, the doctors have twisted you, don't trust the doctors, decide everything yourself, decide everything

myself, and the gypsies, what house is old? with the fact that at such a stage of cancer, the only chance is an operation. i swear, i didn’t say anything. and who? i read my medical record, wrote down the name, asked your colleagues. but all the cards are in the safe, i suggest focusing not on the location of the card, but on my diagnosis. zoya ivanovna, you are a famous

writer, a laureate of the state prize, treating you is a huge responsibility. i did not dare to tell you the diagnosis, but since you found out about it yourself, then we set the day of the operation, i am aware that i may not wake up. after anesthesia, well give me a chance, i'm only 62, i haven't done everything i planned yet, but the restrictions after the operation are very strict, are they really stricter than in the case of death from cancer, zoya ivanovna, you'll have to quit smoking, it's almost impossible to quit smoking abruptly at this age, you 've been smoking for a long time, 30 years, a day, oh my god, but if necessary, i'll quit, they didn't understand that

opening the safe and getting medical records from there, however, how to quit smoking, a funny task for an intelligence colonel, where are you here orno, the operation was a success, the doctors managed to prolong my life for a long time. somehow the seventies, eighties flew by unnoticed and the nineties arrived. hello, hello, mom, how are you? hello, son. as you can see, i'm alive, i'll fasten it again, i'm not in a hurry for that color. okay , what are you listening to? mozart, i've been waiting for myself for tea,

i baked an apple pie, sit down at the table, try it, apple pie, i don't trust anyone to bake it, mm, delicious, only you can make them like this. delicious, a successful pie should be like a shot, the accuracy of the calculation is not a single extra movement, and how is that? snatching the gun and hitting should not take a second, you stand facing the target, yeah, relax, choose the target with your eyes, don't look down, don't get distracted when you shoot, the gun's stop in the trajectory of movement should coincide with the shot, but this doesn't always work, son, so with a pie, and

have you ever shot, had to. how strange, mom, i know almost nothing about you, you told me so little about yourself, you see, my dear son, there are things that i don't i can even tell you, that's the peculiarity of our profession, yes, i almost forgot. this is your father's watch, i've wanted

to give it to you for a long time, but there was never a chance, now it's yours, keep it. alyosha, son, hello, listen to me carefully, i'm calling to say goodbye to you, you don't have to interrupt me, remember, i need to be buried in the grave with my father, grandmother, please, don't forget, my favorite color is blue. i've prepared the clothes, they're hanging in the closet, and also, alyosha, please, no funeral music, i don't like it.

young bunka went, would have thought pasha.

the stage, her life and heart belonged entirely to him. today, despite the fact that every day of hers is filled with work, the memory of muslim does not leave tamara ilinichna for a moment, she does everything so that the viewer does not forget him. hello,

their first meeting took place on television. musalin recalled. she looked just like a girl, which, perhaps, i would not have been interested in. but when she began to sing, i even opened my mouth in amazement. she amazed me with her art. then moslim appreciated only her voice, and did not even suspect that this woman would become his constant muse, his main love. it's just the two of us. their paths will cross more than once at concerts in the dressing rooms, of course, these meetings will not be accidental, tamara and muslim seemed to be led to each other, they certainly had to meet one day, so as not

to part again, but fate seemed to delay this moment, allowing each to go their own way, passion. someone found their future in this, someone did not. tamara's mother did not intend to become a singer, it was a way of life, to sing in the temple, if you have a voice. it was very clear to her if i became a nurse. that is, she

thought that it was not serious, yes or, this is a zypka, for her it seemed shaky. somewhere she was right, as an ordinary person, as a normal person, but so small ... this is tamara senyavskaya, a soloist of the bolshoi theater, but she once sang in our ensemble, just like us, oh, so glad, so glad, but on the edge of the earth, all this is so unexpected, yes, i will, i will, i will come,

tamara was brought to the ensemble songs of loktev's dance by her mother at the urgent request of the neighbors, i sang very loudly and strongly and a lot there in the yard, in all the entrances, the voice sounded very beautiful there, wonderful. "girl, you are still small, stand in the last row," said the ballet teacher, but tamara, due to her irrepressible character, always tried to come forward, as a result, the overly emotional girl had to leave the dance group, but vladimir sergeevich loktev noticed her and invited her to his choir, where tamara sang for 8 years. being already the prima of the bolshoi theater, senyavskaya still will go to dance school, but already with the great masters, working on the image of carmen.

let's go, friends, by the way, i wanted to dare, i then still restrained myself. in the youth, when i sang sonya, she sang natasha, then i grew up, they offered me to sing, no, i apologize, i sang in this performance, and what was there with the shoulders, helen bezout, that's about, let's go, friends, to the sofa, here

we go, yes, here we go, softly, i remembered. tamara senyavskaya came to the bolshoi theater after graduating from the music school at the conservatory. at the audition for a candidate in the trainee group was chaired by maestro svetlanov himself, then the chief conductor of the theater. singer anatoly arfenov recalled: when she approached the piano, everyone looked at each other and smiled. whispers began. soon we will start taking artists from kindergarten, so young did the twenty-year-old debutante look.

it was either at 20 or 21, being

a student at the music school sinyavskoy first heard magamaev on the radio, drank muslim, and i did not know that it was him singing, i froze so, to myself even rather said, in my opinion, i do not remember, there is no one nearby it was, in my opinion, for this voice i would go to the ends of the earth, i said it like that, i don’t know why i said it like that, i said i forgot.

the steps of the vocal olympus. at the senyavskaya competition she also confidently climbed the petr ilyevichaykovsky authoritative jury decided to award two.

no one can believe it, but we loved each other all our lives in samara now we love, in the sixties a trolleybus ran along gorky street, now tverskoy street, in that trolleybus, if you were lucky, you could see and, most importantly, hear young singers in the back seat the bolshoi theatre. we sat in the back of the trolleybus and sang russian songs, that's how we had a really fun time, then tamarin's mom fed us pork chops and fried potatoes, so we often remember the taste, that braid has remained, this friendship is very unusual for the artistic environment, and for the current atmosphere of the bolshoi theatre, it seems simply incredible, what a passage, and knowing their

worldwide fame, it is very difficult to imagine how, on tour in tashkent , she sold melons in an exemplary manner at the bazaar, in japan has three world celebrities. in a hotel room they were making mushroom soup, but they wanted mushrooms so much it was simply impossible, and we went to the store, but since no one spoke any japanese, we bought some kind of bag, painted mushrooms, so we took, uh, the eternal companion of touring performers, what is it called, a boiler, yes, we put it in some kind of jar, poured this out, such a stench went out that it was a miracle that we were not evicted from the hotel and... when we poured all this swill into a pot, the smell went through all the floors, we don’t know what, but it was mushrooms were drawn, such funny things were, hello, hello, i was screaming, where is my yulia? this touching

meeting was a surprise for yulia sharova, the oldest make-up artist of the bolshoi theater, yulia, yulia mikhailova worked in the theater for more than 60 years, among the great masters whom she made up, there were also the most beloved ones. tamara including makval, she came there soon, they, as they say, my dears, this lady is capricious, here in relation to your work, because no, no, we created all sorts of images with her.

american movie star of the thirties, so here these lips were drawn, this wig was white, yes it was horrible.

the phone rang in the room, at that time i was working in baku, and...