Grigory Kotovsky. The mystery of life and death. Sokolov B.V.

Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky was a legend, both with the royal and in Soviet power. In the Russian Empire, one of the recognized leaders of the criminal world, who in Bessarabia was called "local Robin Hood" and "Ataman of Hell." After 1917 - the legendary commander of the Red Army and the national hero of the Civil War, a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, as well as one of the leaders of the Ukrainian, Moldavian and Union Central Executive Committee.

historian Boris Sokolov shows that of numerous myths, by which the name of Grigory Kotovsky has overgrown, it corresponds to reality, and what has little in common with them. The author talks in detail about such well -known episodes of the biography of the protagonist of this book as participation in the occupation of Odessa in the winter of 1920 and about the fight against the Antonon uprising in the Tambov province in the summer of 1921. The reasons for his popularity are explained, an attempt is made to reveal the motives for his mysterious murder. The reflection of the image of Kotovsky in the novel by Victor Pelevin “Chapaev and the Void” and in the cinema is also traced. The biography of Kotovsky was given against the backdrop of the history of Russia of the first quarter of the 20th century, including the so -called. "Bessarabian question."