Book: Steel grip of empire

Where a stranger appears, there will always be a traitor. The external enemy generates a fifth column; the internal enemy, whether he wants it or not, works for him. This connecting thread can be traced through the destinies of fighters against the regime, who easily turned from fiery Russian revolutionaries into law-abiding, successful Western bourgeois. What is worth at least the life of one of the main instigators of the uprising on the Potemkin, sailor Vanya Beshov, who suddenly turned out to be the wealthy owner of an entire chain of restaurants in Foggy Albion.

There is not and never will be a government in Russia that suits us. A state that exists on this territory on any principles, be it extreme right or extreme left, is our enemy. And only his absence will satisfy us completely.

Nothing has happened yet, but everyone already knows what happened...

Now he will give up his watch and head ashore. <...> Well, there is a respectable and quite revered American passport in a neutral country, a train ticket to Calais, a coastal steamer... As the crown of all labors, a not-so-modest pension and a small house in West Sussex... He didn’t think of it: when gentlemen prefer not to leave traces, the five-hour retarders work within three minutes, so the officer who planted the infernal machine in the powder magazine of the newest battleship “Prince Potemkin-Tavrichesky” was one of the first to die. There are no traces left. And the pension and house in West Sussex, carried out according to the appropriate documentation, will not be lost, but they will go to a gentleman more worthy of the property.