The Ochrana: The Russian Secret Police

by A. T. Vassilyev, René Fülöp-Miller (Introduction)

Overview

Originally published in 1930, these are the memoirs of the last Tsarist chief of police, Okhrana, who was arrested by the revolutionaries, refused to be a Bolshevik spy, escaped to France, became a railway porter and died penniless.

The book tells of the part he played in Rasputin’s death and his experiences during WWI and the Revolutions, and the comparison between the Okhrana and the Cheka, the Soviet secret police, in which he describes a kinder, gentler Okhrana.

Richly illustrated throughout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787205123
Publisher:	Muriwai Books
Publication date:	06/28/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	270
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

ALEKSEI TIKHONOVICH VASSILYEV (1869-1930) was the last Tsarist chief of police, Okhrana.

RENÉ FÜLÖP-MILLER, born Philip Müller (17 February 1891 - 17 May 1963) was an Austrian cultural historian and writer. He was born to an Alsatian immigrant and a Serbian mother in Caransebeş (then the Austro-Hungarian Empire). During his career as a journalist and editor he resided in various places such as Vienna, Paris, Lausanne, Budapest, Moscow, London, Los Angeles and New York.

His published works include Rasputin: The Holy Devil (1927), The Mind and Face of Bolshevism: An Examination of Cultural Life in Soviet Russia (1927), The Russian Theatre: Its Character and History with Special Reference to the Revolutionary Period (1927) and Lenin and Gandhi (1927)

He died in Hanover, New Hampshire aged 72.