Songbird of the OGPU. As the woman became a great singer and a scout 80 years ago, in 1938, began the trial of the one whose fame spread throughout Russia and Europe. The verdict: “Guilty on all counts”. The second Mata Hari, one of the most talented Russian singers of XX century Nadezhda Plevitskaya was convicted of spying for the Soviet intelligence service and later died in a French prison. About how favorite of Tsar Nicholas II, Feodor Chaliapin and Sergei Yesenin became a NKVD agent in Paris, says writer and historian of intelligence, counter-intelligence Colonel in resignation Igor Atamanenko. Of the novices in singer — Its fate similar stories of Cinderella, whose fairy godmother has become a Russian folk song. Dika Vinnikov was born 17 Jan 1884 in a poor peasant family. “Born on the twelfth and last, and remained there five of us, other the will of God
