Jacob Blumkin: poet-SR, KGB terrorist (part two)
Blyumkin and his comrades decided to hide after the terrorist attack in the special forces detachment of the Moscow Cheka, which was also commanded by the left-wing Socialist-Revolutionary Sailor Popov for some reason. And the detachment also consisted mainly of sailors condemning the Brest Peace and dissatisfied with the destruction fleet.
And now let's see. You are the head of the Cheka, but you don’t know the mood you have in the special forces detachment, nor who breathes what ... What kind of leadership is this? But this is exactly how it turns out that Dzerzhinsky led the Cheka. Because when he learned that Blumkin was in a detachment from Popov, he went there himself ... Did he rely on his authority? Consciousness alcoholized sailor? It is clear that there his own Social Revolutionaries arrested him and still have happiness (although for whom is happiness?), That they did not kill him right away, but decided to make him a hostage.
This is how Jacob Blumkin looked in the 20 years ...
Well, with Blyumkin at that time was so. It turned out that because of his wound, he could not walk and was carried in his arms to the infirmary of the detachment, after having shaved off his beard and dressed him in his tunic. Disguised in one word!
Meanwhile, in the mansion where Popov's detachment was located, the Central Committee of the Left Social Revolutionaries moved in, having two thousand bayonets and sabers under hand, and forty-eight more machine guns, four armored cars and eight artillery pieces, began the uprising. In addition to Dzerzhinsky, the rebels also arrested the security officer M. Latsis and the chairman of the Moscow Soviet Bolshevik P. Smidovich. But although they were able to achieve some success, their rebellion was initially doomed to failure. There is a beautifully filmed movie “July 6”, where the events of this day are presented in the most dramatic way for the Bolshevik party, but in reality the overwhelming advantage in the armed forces was not at all among the Social Revolutionaries.
Already at 6 in the morning of July 7, an artillery fire was opened on the mansion where the main forces of the Left SRs were located. Blumkin was no longer needed by the Bolsheviks, especially since Lenin had already apologized for the incident to the German side. But the Germans were profitable to hush up and continue to pump out funds from Ukraine. Moreover, the situation was extremely beneficial to the Bolsheviks. During the Fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the entire Left Socialist-Revolutionary faction, together with their leader Maria Spiridonova, was arrested right in the hall of the Bolshoi Theater. And although Popov began to threaten that “for Marusya, half of the Kremlin, half of the Lubyanka, half of the Theater will demolish with artillery!”, What could he do with his eight three-inches ?! The Bolsheviks, having under their hands a whole division of Latvian riflemen, proved to be initially stronger.
But in this book, Bonch-Bruevich described in detail the July 6 mutiny. “That's just, what if the boy wasn't there?”
The Bolsheviks had fifteen guns, from which they began to fire at the quarter where the Left Socialist-Revolutionary headquarters was located and soon destroyed many houses there. As a matter of fact, by the 5 hours of the day on July 7, the revolt of the Left SRs was completely suppressed. More than 300 people died in battle or were shot on the spot, and about 600 people were arrested. Lenin issued a decree on the need to arrest all the militants of the party of the Left Social Revolutionaries and their Central Committee members. Soon 13 people from among the leaders of the uprising were shot.
D. Popov, however, being sentenced to death in absentia, managed to escape from Moscow and ... escaped from Makhno. Blumkin also survived, but the SR party ceased to exist. If before the July 6 insurgency there were 20 – 23% Left Social Revolutionaries in the provincial councils of the country, by the end of 1918 there were only 1% left.
However, there is a version that there was no insurrection, that all this was arranged and organized just by the Bolsheviks, who thus decided to get rid of dangerous competitors. They write about this O. Shishkin (Battle of the Himalayas. M., 1999) and V. Romanov (Killed on July 6. M., 1997), who claimed in their books that the terrorist attack and the murder of Mirbach were sanctioned by Lenin and Dzerzhinsky. Later, Blumkin, in conversation with Lunacharsky's wife, Natalia Lunacharsky-Rosenel and her cousin Tatiana Sats, admitted that Lenin and Dzerzhinsky also knew about the impending assassination attempt on the German ambassador. And then Lenin, by telephone, ordered the murderers to "search, search very carefully, but not find."
Evidence that Blumkin acted with the "highest" approval, says that the Revolutionary Tribunal of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee sentenced him for murder after just three years in prison. Since he was wounded, he was kept in a guarded hospital, but ... 9 July 1918 of the year he safely escaped from there and went to St. Petersburg, where under the last name Vladimirov Konstantin Konstantinovich got a job in the Cheka!
But how then do the words of Dzerzhinsky look after the suppression of the Social Revolutionary “revolt”, that he did not trust Blumkin and even removed from office for ... his excessive talkativeness. But it turns out that the same Dzerzhinsky first hides Blumkin convicted by the Soviet court in the states of his institution, and then in September 1918 of the year sends him to work in Ukraine.
There, while in Kiev, he finds himself in the second battle Kiev group, which was supposed to kill Hetman Skoropadsky. There were four maximalist SRs and four left SRs in the group. The terrorist attack was to take place on November 26, 1918, and it was entrusted to all the same Andreev, but because of a malfunction the bombs did not take place.
And in April, 1919, he suddenly appeared in the Kiev Cheka and surrendered to the "Soviet justice." And this at a time when the Left SRs were shot in the country for membership in the party alone. And then there is such a brave and, one can say, desperate step and practically without consequences! In a statement to the Cheka, he argued that in fact no rebellion of the left SRs existed, but there was only "the self-defense of the revolutionaries after the Central Committee refused to extradite me" and insisted that he wanted to stop all sorts of false attacks on the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries .
And now guess at once what ended the investigation into the case of Blumkin? In coordination with the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets and, of course, with the approval of “Iron Felix”, irreconcilable to the enemies of the revolution, the commission of inquiry decided to Blumkin ... to amnesty! And immediately, after this amnesty in May 1919, he immediately expressed a passionate desire to work in the Cheka and ... they took him there for the third time!
What he did after that is practically unknown, but there is evidence that he belonged to one “revolutionary party” (and there were many), then to another and as soon as somewhere, someone in them decided to oppose the Bolsheviks, so immediately and fell on the bench or worse. And such a strange algorithm of his behavior was noticed. Exactly one year after their failed uprising of 6 on June 1919, the Left Social Revolutionaries invited Blumkin to a gathering outside the city, where they read to him an indictment, declaring him a traitor and a provocateur. Blumkin listened to them, turned and ran! And the crowd started shooting at him and ... did not hit! And not caught up, that's how! One might think that this attempt was just a dramatization. But in reality this was not the case.
A few days later, when Blumkin was a cafe on Khreshchatyk, two people approached him and fired several shots at an emphasis. Music muffled shots, so that the killers managed to escape. The wounded Blumkin was brought to St. George's hospital in serious condition, but 17 June went there straight to his ward, the Social Revolutionaries managed to drop the bomb, and fortunate that no one there was injured by its explosion.
After improving his health, Blumkin, on instructions from the maximalist Social Revolutionaries, went to the Southern Front, where he first became authorized to combat espionage at the Special Section of the 13 Army and instructor in intelligence and terrorist activities, in what capacity he began to prepare the terrorist attack against Denikin. And then he received the post of chief of staff of the 79 brigade of the 27 division and ... joined the RCP (b).
Blumkin returned to Moscow in March 1920 of the year and was immediately enrolled as a student of the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army in the Eastern Faculty, where he trained intelligence agents and staff for Soviet embassies abroad. They taught there not for fear, but for conscience from nine in the morning until ten in the evening. The students had to study several oriental languages and gain military, economic and political knowledge. True, Blumkin was harder to learn than others, because he was periodically embraced by the fear that the Left SRs would find him again and kill him. After all, the sentence imposed on him has not been canceled, and many people knew that he was handed down ...
But, despite all his fears, he graduated from the Academy. Now, apart from his native Hebrew, he also knew Turkish, Arabic, Chinese, and Mongolian (at least he could at least somehow communicate at the household level), but he received an appointment for work not anywhere, but to the military commissar’s office. and maritime affairs of L. Trotsky to the post of his personal secretary.
To be continued ...
And now let's see. You are the head of the Cheka, but you don’t know the mood you have in the special forces detachment, nor who breathes what ... What kind of leadership is this? But this is exactly how it turns out that Dzerzhinsky led the Cheka. Because when he learned that Blumkin was in a detachment from Popov, he went there himself ... Did he rely on his authority? Consciousness alcoholized sailor? It is clear that there his own Social Revolutionaries arrested him and still have happiness (although for whom is happiness?), That they did not kill him right away, but decided to make him a hostage.
This is how Jacob Blumkin looked in the 20 years ...
Well, with Blyumkin at that time was so. It turned out that because of his wound, he could not walk and was carried in his arms to the infirmary of the detachment, after having shaved off his beard and dressed him in his tunic. Disguised in one word!
Meanwhile, in the mansion where Popov's detachment was located, the Central Committee of the Left Social Revolutionaries moved in, having two thousand bayonets and sabers under hand, and forty-eight more machine guns, four armored cars and eight artillery pieces, began the uprising. In addition to Dzerzhinsky, the rebels also arrested the security officer M. Latsis and the chairman of the Moscow Soviet Bolshevik P. Smidovich. But although they were able to achieve some success, their rebellion was initially doomed to failure. There is a beautifully filmed movie “July 6”, where the events of this day are presented in the most dramatic way for the Bolshevik party, but in reality the overwhelming advantage in the armed forces was not at all among the Social Revolutionaries.
Already at 6 in the morning of July 7, an artillery fire was opened on the mansion where the main forces of the Left SRs were located. Blumkin was no longer needed by the Bolsheviks, especially since Lenin had already apologized for the incident to the German side. But the Germans were profitable to hush up and continue to pump out funds from Ukraine. Moreover, the situation was extremely beneficial to the Bolsheviks. During the Fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the entire Left Socialist-Revolutionary faction, together with their leader Maria Spiridonova, was arrested right in the hall of the Bolshoi Theater. And although Popov began to threaten that “for Marusya, half of the Kremlin, half of the Lubyanka, half of the Theater will demolish with artillery!”, What could he do with his eight three-inches ?! The Bolsheviks, having under their hands a whole division of Latvian riflemen, proved to be initially stronger.
But in this book, Bonch-Bruevich described in detail the July 6 mutiny. “That's just, what if the boy wasn't there?”
The Bolsheviks had fifteen guns, from which they began to fire at the quarter where the Left Socialist-Revolutionary headquarters was located and soon destroyed many houses there. As a matter of fact, by the 5 hours of the day on July 7, the revolt of the Left SRs was completely suppressed. More than 300 people died in battle or were shot on the spot, and about 600 people were arrested. Lenin issued a decree on the need to arrest all the militants of the party of the Left Social Revolutionaries and their Central Committee members. Soon 13 people from among the leaders of the uprising were shot.
D. Popov, however, being sentenced to death in absentia, managed to escape from Moscow and ... escaped from Makhno. Blumkin also survived, but the SR party ceased to exist. If before the July 6 insurgency there were 20 – 23% Left Social Revolutionaries in the provincial councils of the country, by the end of 1918 there were only 1% left.
However, there is a version that there was no insurrection, that all this was arranged and organized just by the Bolsheviks, who thus decided to get rid of dangerous competitors. They write about this O. Shishkin (Battle of the Himalayas. M., 1999) and V. Romanov (Killed on July 6. M., 1997), who claimed in their books that the terrorist attack and the murder of Mirbach were sanctioned by Lenin and Dzerzhinsky. Later, Blumkin, in conversation with Lunacharsky's wife, Natalia Lunacharsky-Rosenel and her cousin Tatiana Sats, admitted that Lenin and Dzerzhinsky also knew about the impending assassination attempt on the German ambassador. And then Lenin, by telephone, ordered the murderers to "search, search very carefully, but not find."
Evidence that Blumkin acted with the "highest" approval, says that the Revolutionary Tribunal of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee sentenced him for murder after just three years in prison. Since he was wounded, he was kept in a guarded hospital, but ... 9 July 1918 of the year he safely escaped from there and went to St. Petersburg, where under the last name Vladimirov Konstantin Konstantinovich got a job in the Cheka!
But how then do the words of Dzerzhinsky look after the suppression of the Social Revolutionary “revolt”, that he did not trust Blumkin and even removed from office for ... his excessive talkativeness. But it turns out that the same Dzerzhinsky first hides Blumkin convicted by the Soviet court in the states of his institution, and then in September 1918 of the year sends him to work in Ukraine.
There, while in Kiev, he finds himself in the second battle Kiev group, which was supposed to kill Hetman Skoropadsky. There were four maximalist SRs and four left SRs in the group. The terrorist attack was to take place on November 26, 1918, and it was entrusted to all the same Andreev, but because of a malfunction the bombs did not take place.
And in April, 1919, he suddenly appeared in the Kiev Cheka and surrendered to the "Soviet justice." And this at a time when the Left SRs were shot in the country for membership in the party alone. And then there is such a brave and, one can say, desperate step and practically without consequences! In a statement to the Cheka, he argued that in fact no rebellion of the left SRs existed, but there was only "the self-defense of the revolutionaries after the Central Committee refused to extradite me" and insisted that he wanted to stop all sorts of false attacks on the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries .
And now guess at once what ended the investigation into the case of Blumkin? In coordination with the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets and, of course, with the approval of “Iron Felix”, irreconcilable to the enemies of the revolution, the commission of inquiry decided to Blumkin ... to amnesty! And immediately, after this amnesty in May 1919, he immediately expressed a passionate desire to work in the Cheka and ... they took him there for the third time!
What he did after that is practically unknown, but there is evidence that he belonged to one “revolutionary party” (and there were many), then to another and as soon as somewhere, someone in them decided to oppose the Bolsheviks, so immediately and fell on the bench or worse. And such a strange algorithm of his behavior was noticed. Exactly one year after their failed uprising of 6 on June 1919, the Left Social Revolutionaries invited Blumkin to a gathering outside the city, where they read to him an indictment, declaring him a traitor and a provocateur. Blumkin listened to them, turned and ran! And the crowd started shooting at him and ... did not hit! And not caught up, that's how! One might think that this attempt was just a dramatization. But in reality this was not the case.
A few days later, when Blumkin was a cafe on Khreshchatyk, two people approached him and fired several shots at an emphasis. Music muffled shots, so that the killers managed to escape. The wounded Blumkin was brought to St. George's hospital in serious condition, but 17 June went there straight to his ward, the Social Revolutionaries managed to drop the bomb, and fortunate that no one there was injured by its explosion.
After improving his health, Blumkin, on instructions from the maximalist Social Revolutionaries, went to the Southern Front, where he first became authorized to combat espionage at the Special Section of the 13 Army and instructor in intelligence and terrorist activities, in what capacity he began to prepare the terrorist attack against Denikin. And then he received the post of chief of staff of the 79 brigade of the 27 division and ... joined the RCP (b).
Blumkin returned to Moscow in March 1920 of the year and was immediately enrolled as a student of the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army in the Eastern Faculty, where he trained intelligence agents and staff for Soviet embassies abroad. They taught there not for fear, but for conscience from nine in the morning until ten in the evening. The students had to study several oriental languages and gain military, economic and political knowledge. True, Blumkin was harder to learn than others, because he was periodically embraced by the fear that the Left SRs would find him again and kill him. After all, the sentence imposed on him has not been canceled, and many people knew that he was handed down ...
But, despite all his fears, he graduated from the Academy. Now, apart from his native Hebrew, he also knew Turkish, Arabic, Chinese, and Mongolian (at least he could at least somehow communicate at the household level), but he received an appointment for work not anywhere, but to the military commissar’s office. and maritime affairs of L. Trotsky to the post of his personal secretary.
To be continued ...
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