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135: 378:) is a former White Army officer turned NKVD agent. Posing as a pianist in Paris, Mitya is described as having delivered eight White Generals to the NKVD. All are described as having been kidnapped, returned to Moscow and shot without trial. One of the generals is given the name "Weiner." 31: 288:
However, the NKVD's plan to have Skoblin promoted to presidency of the ROVS was thwarted, as Miller had been suspicious about Skoblin and the meeting, therefore he left behind a note with details of the meeting to be opened if he failed to return.
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When in Bulgaria, in 1923, he was relieved of the position of commander of the Kornilov regiment (formed in the Gallipoli on the basis of the Kornilov Division's evacuees). Skoblin and his wife moved to
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who manufactured documents about Tukhachevsky being a German spy, which were transferred to the Soviet top leadership by Skoblin. This story was originally uncovered by Soviet intelligence defector
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Plevitskaya was put on trial and convicted by the French authorities as an accomplice to the kidnapping and presumed murder of Miller. She died in prison in 1940.
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into an NKVD safe apartment for a meeting with two supposedly German officers. In reality, they were Soviet intelligence officers, Shpigelglas and NKVD Paris
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by his former regimental comrade in Paris in September 1930 and received code name Farmer. Skoblin was meanwhile gaining importance in the
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On 26 March 1920, aged 26, as the commander of the Kornilov Division within the Russian Army (under the command of Gen
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On 22 September 1937, Skoblin, operating under the direction of deputy chief of Soviet foreign intelligence
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considered to be a great beauty, who had been traveling the front singing and entertaining Red Army troops.
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It is believed that he met his wife, Nadezhda Plevitskaya, during the war. Plevitskaya was a committed
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in his memoirs published in 1956 wrote about Germany's intentional denunciation of Tukhachevsky, with
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Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Beneš in the 1930s
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White Generals in Bulgaria, 1921. Seated from right to left : generals
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There is no reliable information about the circumstances Skoblin's death.
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In addition, the kidnapping of General Miller is also fictionalized in
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Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness — A Soviet Spymaster
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Kislov. Miller was drugged and smuggled aboard a Soviet ship in
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and was instrumental in the abduction of the ROVS chairman Gen
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being used a channel of this disinformation passed to Stalin.
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Nikolai Skoblin played a key role in the joint operation by
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Intellectuals and Assassins - Annals of Stalin's Killerati
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Skoblin's and Plevitskaya's story was fictionalized by
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Skoblin

Russian
White Russian
expatriate
Russian All-Military Union
NKVD
Gestapo
Tukhachevsky affair
Yevgeny Miller
Paris
Nadezhda Plevitskaya
USSR
Lavr Kornilov
Russian Civil War
Bolshevik
Pyotr Wrangel
Gallipoli

Shteifon
Kutepov
Vitkovsky
Turkul
Paris
Alexander Kutepov
Russian All-Military Union
OGPU
Inner Line

Germany

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