About the book: 1983 / Writer Evgeny Ratner came to literature from journalism. He wrote several stories and novels, published in Moscow, Riga, Kyiv, Kharkov. This story by the writer tells about Martyn Latsis, whom V.I. Lenin called one of the best, proven communists. They met in April 1917, when a people's teacher from Latvia, a party member since 1905, who went through underground and exile, headed the Bolshevik organization of the Vyborg side of Petrograd. Soon after October, the Party Central Committee sent M. Latsis to the Cheka. Many pages of this book are devoted to his KGB activities..