Background
His father was a Georgian, his mother was a Russian noble.
His father was a Georgian, his mother was a Russian noble.
In 1934 he has entered the intelligence service. Since 1937 he was illegally acting in Nazi Germany. In Germany, he was a tank commander taking part in the invasion of Poland and France, later Sturmbannführer (major) of Steamship In 1941-1944 he worked at an aviation factory in Flossenbürg.
1945 - 1947 - colonel of People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, acting in Paris at repatriation commission.
1948 - 1956 and 1963 — 1966 - intelligence agent in Belgium and France. Later he lived in Israel and died there.