Stalin's Romeo Spy
 
Dmitri Bystrorlyotov, circa 1915 (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Dmitri's mother, Klavdya Bystrolyotova, circa 1900 (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Bystrolyotov as a sailor,circa spring 1921 (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Bystrolyotov as a helmsman, Fall of 1921 (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Constantinopole, ink drawing by Dmitri Bystrolyotov, 1921 (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Bystrolyotov, 1925 (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Maria Milena Iolanta Shelmatova (code name MILENA) (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Bystrolyotov, 1926 (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Bystrolyotov as Greek merchant Alexander S. Gallas (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) as Hungarian Count Lajos József Perelly de Kiralyhaza (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Dutch artist Hans Galleni (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) as Sir Robert Grenville (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Greta (code name ORLENOK) (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Bystrolyotov on a reconnaissance mission in Bellinzona, Switzerland, circa 1934 (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Bystrolyotov's portait of his mother (gouache, 1937) (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Photos from Bystrolyotov's arrest file, September 18, 1938 (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Bystrolyotov's self-portrait (gouache, 1947) (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Bystrolyotov, before release from the Goulag, 1954 (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Bystolyotov in freedom, 1956 (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Bystrolyotov, with his second wife, Anna Ivanova, 1966 (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov) Bystrolyotov and author around the time of their meeting on September 11, 1973 (Courtesy of Sergei Milashov and the author)