About the book: 2011 / In the history of Russian collaboration during the Second World War, Wehrmacht Major General Boris Alekseevich occupies a special place Smyslovsky (1897–1988), also known under the pseudonyms "von Regenau" and "Arthur Holmston". Coming from a famous Russian noble family, an artillery officer and intelligence officer who served in the Russian Imperial and White armies, Smyslovsky was forced to emigrate to Europe after the end of the Civil War. In a foreign land, he did not abandon the idea of ​​​​fighting Bolshevism by any means, and in the early 1930s. became a full-time employee of the German military intelligence - Abwehr. This book is a story about Smyslovsky’s activities through the prism of his biography. The bulk of the study was occupied by chapters devoted to the Second World War.