Яков Блюмкин: Ошибка резидента

Korotkai͡a zhiznʹ I͡Akova Bli͡umkina (1900-1929) do sikh por ostaetsi͡a verenit͡seĭ zagadok, taĭn, "belykh pi͡aten", khoti͡a on druzhil, vrazhdoval, zastolʹnichal so mnogimi literatorami, sredi nikh Esenin, Mai͡akovskiĭ, Mandelʹshtam, Georgiĭ Ivanov… Odni ostavili o nem vospominanii͡a, pokhozhie na pamflety, drugie vkli͡uchili v proizvedenii͡a: "Chelovek, sredi tolpy naroda / Zastrelivshiĭ imperatorskogo posla, / Podoshel pozhatʹ mne ruku, / Poblagodaritʹ za moi stikhi" (N. Gumilëv). I ėto - ubiĭstvo v 1918-m germanskogo posla fon Mirbakha, davshee start vosstanii͡u levykh ėserov protiv bolʹshevistskogo pravitelʹstva (kak prini͡ato schitatʹ), - edinstvennyĭ fakt ego biografii, ne podlezhashchiĭ somnenii͡u. Ostalʹnye neveroi͡atnye prikli͡uchenii͡a i oblichʹi͡a Bli͡umkina - chekist, organizator revoli͡ut͡sii v Persii, "diktator" Mongolii, iskatelʹ klada barona Ungerna, voennyĭ sovetnik v Kitae, sovetskiĭ razvedchik-nelegal na Blizhnem Vostoke, zhertva predatelʹstva li͡ubimoĭ zhenshchiny - vosprinimai͡utsi͡a kak mifologii͡a, sozdannai͡a ne bez ego uchastii͡a. Kem zhe on byl na samom dele - revoli͡ut͡sionerom, avanti͡uristom, razvedchikom, provokatorom, taĭnym agentom vyslannogo iz SSSR Trot͡skogo? Evgeniĭ Matonin, izvestnyĭ kinodokumentalist, avtor knig "Iosip Broz Tito", "Nikola Tesla" ("ZhZL"), predprini͡al, pozhaluĭ, pervui͡u popytku vosstanovitʹ na osnove sokhranivshikhsi͡a dokumentov, istoricheskikh issledovaniĭ russkoĭ revoli͡ut͡sii, vospominaniĭ realʹnui͡u biografii͡u ėtogo koloritnogo "geroi͡a" svoego vremeni, kotoryĭ i͡avli͡al soboĭ vse protivorechii͡a ėpokhi velikikh potri͡aseniĭ.

The short life of Yakov Blumkin (1900-1929) still remains a string of mysteries, secrets, "white spots", although he was friends, enemies, feasting with many writers, among them Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Georgy Ivanov... Some left memories of him, similar to pamphlets, others included in the works: "a Man among the crowd of people / Shot the Imperial Ambassador, / Came to shake my hand, / Thank you for my poems" (N. Gumilev). And this — the murder in 1918 of German Ambassador von Mirbach, which gave rise to the uprising of the left SRS against the Bolshevik government (as is commonly believed) - the only fact of his biography, beyond doubt. Other incredible adventures and guises Bliumkin, the security officer, the organizer of the revolution in Persia, the "dictator" of Mongolia, the finder of the treasure Baron Ungern, a military adviser in China, the Soviet spy-illegal immigrant in the middle East, the victim of the treachery of the woman — are perceived as mythology, not created without his participation. Who was he really — a revolutionary, adventurer, scout, provocateur, secret agent expelled from the USSR Trotsky? Yevgeny Matonin, a famous documentary filmmaker, author of the books "Josip Broz Tito", "Nikola Tesla" ("ZHZL"), made perhaps the first attempt to restore on the basis of preserved documents, historical studies of the Russian revolution, memories of the real biography of this colorful "hero" of his time, which was all the contradictions of the era of great upheavals.