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Author:

Marinich, Vladimir, author.

Title:

The last noble gendarme : how the Tsar's last head of security and intelligence tried to avert the Russian Revolution / Vladimir G. Marinich.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xvii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Globachev, K. I.--(Konstantin Ivanovich),--1870-1941.
Globacheva, Sofia Nikolaevna.
Russia.--OkhrannyiŁa otdiŁeleniiŁ--Biography.
Globachev family.
Globachev, K. I.--(Konstantin Ivanovich),--1870-1941.
Globachev family.
Globacheva, Sofia Nikolaevna.
Russia.--OkhrannyiŁa otdiŁeleniiŁ
Secret service--Russia--History--20th century.
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.
Political culture--Saint Petersburg--Saint Petersburg--History--20th century.
Immigrants--New York--New York--Biography.
Russians--New York--New York--Biography.
Saint Petersburg (Russia)--Biography.
Immigrants.
Political culture.
Russians.
Secret service.
New York (State)--New York.
Russia.
Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg.
Soviet Union.
1900-1999
Biographies.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Beginnings -- Warsaw, Nizhni Novgorod, and Sevastopol -- As Petrograd's Chief of Security -- And Then, There Was the "Mad Monk" -- The Opportunists -- 1916, Leading to the End -- Turmoil and Arrest -- Sofia Springs into Action -- Incarceration -- Release, Fright, and Flight -- 1919 in Odessa -- Loss -- Constantinople -- Farewell to Constantinople -- The General's Last Assignment -- Toward the End.

Summary:

"Gripping account of the life of the Russian Tsar's last chief of security and intelligence"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1438485999
9781438485997

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1240772995

LCCN:

2021030161

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)