Agent with a teddy bear. Spy games of Viktor Petrov (Domontovych). Eduard Andriushchenko

"Agent with a Bear" is a book that reveals the double biography of Viktor Petrov (V. Domontovych): an archaeologist, author of intellectual novels and at the same time an agent of the Soviet special services. Based on declassified archival files of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Foreign Intelligence Service, the author traces how the cooperation of agent "Ivanov" with the authorities was built, what his activities were during the Great Terror and World War II, in post-war emigration and after returning to the USSR. This is a book about broken and preserved biographies, about choice and survival, about the intellectual game with the state and his own shadow. The author tells the story like an archaeologist of an excavation - from the latest layer to the very bottom, revealing not only the double game of Viktor Petrov, but also the fate of his contemporaries: Rylskyi, Bahrianyi, Shevelov, Krymskyi and others.