Notes of the gendarme. Spiridovich A.I.

The library of the project “History of the Russian State” is the best monuments of world literature recommended by Boris Akunin, which reflects the biography of our country from its very origins. Alexander Ivanovich Spiridovich (1873–1952)-Major General of a separate corps of gendarmes, the employee of the Moscow and the head of the Kyiv security departments.

The memoirs of Spiridovich cover the period from the moment he enters the Arakcheevsky Cadet Corps (1891) and before the revolutionary events 1905. He was a confidant of the sovereign, led the protection of Emperor Nicholas II and his family in Russia and on foreign trips. His memoirs tell in detail how the royal guard with secret agents worked, how the terrorist conspiracies of the Socialist Revolutionaries, the Socialist Revolutionaries, the “People’s will”, etc. were revealed. The “Notes of the gendarmes” had a “secret” vulture and were published for the first time only after 1917 in Berlin.