„Eduard Andryushchenko” – książki

Documents of the Soviet state security agencies, declassified in Ukraine, have become a real Klondike for researchers and journalists. Month after month, year after year, stories found by Eduard Andryushchenko in archival files were turned into articles for Ukrainian and foreign publications. And now they are published under one cover. The heroes of these stories were outstanding artists and cynical killers, agents and Chekists, fugitives and spies. Someone signs absurd confessions, and someone miraculously escapes death. Someone plans an assassination attempt on their relatives, and someone goes to the camps because of their own talkativeness. Someone leaves defiant messages for the KGB, and someone sees the result of his many years of work being destroyed. All these episodes make it possible to better understand the complex and full of contradictions of the life of Ukrainians under Soviet totalitarianism.

Agent with a Teddy Bear is a book that reveals the dual biography of Viktor Petrov (V. Domontovich): archaeologist, author of intellectual novels, and, at the same time, agent of the Soviet secret services. Based on declassified archival files of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Foreign Intelligence Service, the author traces how agent Ivanov collaborated with the authorities, what his activities were during the Great Terror and World War II, in post-war emigration, and after his return to the USSR. This is a book about broken and preserved biographies, about choice and survival, about an intellectual game with the state and one's own shadow. The author tells the story like an archaeologist excavating a site, from the latest layer to the very bottom, revealing not only Viktor Petrov's double game, but also the fates of his contemporaries: Rylsky, Bagryany, Shevelov, Krymsky, and others.