Sami sorcerers and Buryat shamans, experts in cryptography and ancient poisons, hypnotists and psychics, telepaths and clairvoyants - whoever was not hired in a special department of the OGPU, which was led by one of Lenin's closest associates - Gleb Bokiy.
Academician Vladimir Bekhterev, the luminary of domestic psychiatry, consulted the special department, and one of its key employees was none other than the famous terrorist Yakov Blumkin, the favorite of the head of the Cheka Felix Dzerzhinsky and the prototype of Maxim Isaev - Stirlitz. And Bokiy himself may have served as the prototype for another famous character - Bulgakov's Woland. It was rumored that at the Chekist's dacha, events similar to the ball described in The Master and Margarita often took place.
At the beginning of World War II, agents of the Abwehr, on the personal order of Hitler, were looking for the surviving employees of the NKVD special department, which had been disbanded by that time, and offered them fabulous money - 50 thousand Reichsmarks just for the fact that they would answer in detail two or three dozen questions. At the modern exchange rate, that's half a million dollars. This is how the employees of the Special Department of Gleb Bokiya were appreciated!
Before the revolution, Bokiy managed to make a career as a recidivist raider. For 15 years, he appeared in court 12 times, including for murder. But every time, by some miracle, he either managed to escape, or he was acquitted and released. It is noteworthy that the mystic and hypnotist Alexander Gurdjieff, the medium and soothsayer Pavel Mokievsky, as well as the Tibetan witch doctor Pyotr Badmaev, who treated the family of Emperor Nicholas II, at various times contributed a lot of cash deposits for the raider Bokii.
The militants of Gleb Bokiya were engaged in the so-called expropriation - the seizure of property from rich people in favor of the Social Democrats - the Bolsheviks. Long before the revolution, the future head of the special department of state security became friends with Vladimir Lenin, whom for some reason he always called by the name of his mother - Blank. And only once did Bokiy call the leader of the world proletariat by the name that is now inscribed on the Mausoleum - on the day of his arrest. “What is Stalin to me? - said the arrested security officer to the head of the NKVD Nikolai Yezhov. "Lenin appointed me!"
The mystical special department was generated by two atheists - Lenin and Dzerzhinsky
In the first edition of the Bulgakov Encyclopedia, its compiler Boris Sokolov provides evidence that it was Gleb Bokiy, and no one else, who acted as the prototype for Woland from The Master and Margarita. The former head of the 2nd section of the special detachment, a certain Klimenkov, testified during interrogation: “He (Bokiy. - Ed.) In Kuchino created the Dacha Commune. Arriving at the dacha on a day off, Bokiy's guests drank all day and night on the next working day.
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Drunken orgies were often accompanied by fights, turning into a general dump. The reasons for these fights were that husbands noticed the debauchery of their wives with the men present. After a fair amount of drinking, everyone went to the bathhouse, where they openly engaged in sexual debauchery. The women were drunk, stripped and used in turns. All members of the "commune" took part in this, including Bokii's two daughters. Debauchery resulted in several suicides motivated by jealousy.
Bulgakov supposedly learned about the customs of the "commune" from the poet Andrei Bely, who lived there, in Kuchin. “The Chekists, perhaps, seemed to Bulgakov as modern analogues of evil spirits,” wrote Boris Sokolov. “Indeed, the orgies of Bokii and his subordinates even surpassed what happened at the great ball at Satan's, born of the writer's fantasy.”
But in Soviet history, Bokiy remained not only as a possible prototype of a famous literary character and an organizer of depraved entertainment events. In the summer of 1918 - after the assassination of the German ambassador Mirbach, but even before his escape to Ukraine - the head of the personal security of the People's Commissar for Military Affairs Trotsky, Yakov Blumkin, introduces Gleb Bokiy to Academician Vladimir Bekhterev and Alexander Barchenko, an employee of the Bekhterev Institute of the Brain.
It turned out that all four believe in otherworldly forces, practice occultism and are not averse to putting their esoteric knowledge at the service of the young Soviet state. Incredibly, these four so different people manage to interest the head of the Cheka Felix Dzerzhinsky with a proposal to create a special department that would be engaged in the study of various kinds of mystical phenomena.
And in 1921, an atheist who absolutely did not believe in various devilry to the core, Dzerzhinsky signed a decree from another atheist, Vladimir Lenin, to create a special department under the OGPU. For conspiracy, it was called a cipher - well, you can't openly call it the department of mysticism, mind reading and witchcraft?
The agents of the special department knew Tibet better than Nicholas Roerich himself
Gleb Bokiy was offered to head the special department. Alexander Barchenko became Bokii's deputy "for scientific research". In the early 1920s, Barchenko organized his first expedition to the center of the Kola Peninsula. The goal is to study mass hypnosis, “polar rabies”, which the Pomors called “measuring”, and the Eskimos called “the call of the North Star”.
Many explorers of the North have encountered this phenomenon, including the famous Roald Amundsen. Participants of the northern expeditions heard "voices" urging them to do seemingly insane acts, and even attacked each other with axes and ice axes - "at the call of the North Star." Until now, the materials of this expedition remain classified, but, in all likelihood, Barchenko and his companions were successful. Indeed, immediately after the reporting speech at the Institute of the Brain, Deputy Bokii is offered a place as a scientific consultant to the Main Science.
Bokiy and Barchenko receive colossal funds for their research at that time - the average cost of one operation of a special department was about 100 thousand rubles (in terms of today's exchange rate, it is about 600 thousand dollars). Several more expeditions follow to the Kola Peninsula - and in the vicinity of the Sami Seydozero Barchenko discovers ancient pyramids. The find confirmed Barchenko's version that ancient Hyperborea existed in these places.
The next expedition of the special department was supposed to go to Tibet, but the head of the foreign department of the OGPU Meer Trilisser, who was extremely jealous of the special department, who was spending exorbitant means, becomes aware of Bokii's plans. Trilisser convinces Dzerzhinsky to entrust the Tibetan mission to his people. But as a "trailer" from the special department to the expedition at the last moment, they "fasten" the omnipresent Yakov Blumkin. The terrorist disguises himself as a Tibetan lama and follows Nicholas Roerich incognito - it was he who Trilisser entrusted with the leadership of the mission to Lhasa.
Upon their return, neither Roerich, nor Trilisser, as they say, did not break off from the leadership of the USSR - the data they collected were recognized as "insignificant." But Blumkin, Bokiya and Barchenko were expected to receive high government awards. What were they awarded for? For the fact that Blumkin presented some evidence of the existence of the mythical Shambhala. Which ones - it will become clear after the archival materials of the Tibetan expedition are declassified by the Foreign Intelligence Service. They were going to do this there back in 1993, and then again, in 2000. But for some reason, these materials have not been declassified.
Doubtful research funded for a decade and a half
In 1926, on the personal order of Dzerzhinsky, Barchenko undertakes an expedition to the Crimea. The goal is to search for entrances to the ancient cities of abandoned civilizations, excavations of Scythian Naples and Mangup-kale. Two years later, an expedition to Altai follows - there they are observing unidentified flying objects (for the first time in Soviet history!), And then Barchenko is waiting for a return to the Kola Peninsula. There Barchenko searches for a certain “stone from Orion”, or “stone-Grail”, supposedly accumulating and transmitting psychic energy over a distance and providing contact with space.
Rave? Then why are the materials of these expeditions still under seven locks? By the way, Barchenko's findings became known only 25 years ago from the declassified documents of the Nazi secret organization Ahnenerbe. It is also known that over the 15-year history of the existence of the special department, Bokiyu was denied funding only once.
In those slightly naive times, such a practice as “cutting the budget” did not exist in principle, as well as the practice of all kinds of “kickbacks”. It is impossible to admit even the thought that huge funds would have been allocated for years by the Soviet leadership for a deliberately hopeless cause. So, the results of the expeditions of the special department were still quite convincing?
In 1935, immediately after the creation of "Ahnenerbe", its general secretary Wolfram Sievers signed an order to study the results of expeditions organized by the Bokia department. But how did the Germans even know that the Soviet Union was conducting such esoteric research? Perhaps the leak occurred during the contacts between Bokii and Barchenko with Professor Karl Haushofer, which took place back in the mid-1920s.
According to rumors, Barchenko and Haushofer were generally in the same Masonic lodge, but whether this is really so, we can only guess. Haushofer and Sievers seriously believed that the one who owns Tibet - "the heart of the world" - also owns the whole world. And Bokia's special department had such secrets. One way or another, the Germans got a lot of classified materials - either from Barchenko himself, or through some other channel. And during the war years, the German special services launched a real hunt for the employees of the disbanded department - they sought to replenish their knowledge at their expense.
Bokiya and Barchenko were arrested in 1937 - it is possible that at the suggestion of Trilisser, who was extremely jealous of the special department. In the same year, Bokiy was shot, and Barchenko was executed only a year later, after he left a detailed description of the work done by the special department. Of the 189 employees of the "encryption" department by the beginning of the war, no more than fifty people remained alive.
