Ian Fleming, the author of the adventures of "007" admitted, that the main hero was almost "copied" from the British spy Sidney Reilly. And only few people know that it's fake name. The real one was Solomon Rosenblum, and he was born in Ukraine.
His story is very complicated, and it still remains a lot of white spots. Solomon was known as Samuel, and Sigmund, and Shlomo. There are several versions of where he was born. First one - somewhere in the Kherson province, the second - in Odessa. Solomon was the illegitimate son of a famous court agent Michael Rosenblum, but he lived with father’s cousin Hershey Rosenblum and his wife Sophia. Future Spy grew as a smart guy, graduated from high school and learnt at the Novorossiysk University at physics and mathematics faculty. Moreover, he knew 7 languages, and it extremely helped him in the future. And then he realized: Jews in Odessa began to live worse, so he had to search for a better life. Moreover, robbery skills opened him the whole world. In addition, he has managed to go behind bars - through participation in the revolutionary group "Friends of Enlightenment". So, Solomon decided to stage his own suicide and escape. He wrote a letter to his mother that his body would be found under the ice in the harbor of Odessa and went to Brazil.
In the jungles of the country began his career as a legendary spy. He took part in the British expedition during which he saved the agent-spy. Guy in gratitude helped him to obtain citizenship of the UK and move in there. And there, in one version, he married a rich widow, Margaret Thomas- Riley. There is a version, that she became a widow after meeting Solomon.
He started to work as spy in 1897, firstly moved to St. Petersburg, where told everyone that he was rich, lived life the way he loved most, including wealth, parties and beautiful women. And in 1903 he decided independently to crank an operation. He sold to the Japanese the plan of the Russian port of Port Arthur, although he was friends with them. After he sent the drawing to Britain, and then he completely revealed its nature, Solomon only played on his own side. And on the side of money. And he was not disclosed.
Later he returned to St. Petersburg and established a peaceful life, opened a firm of marine transportation of goods, felt like a cheese in butter. He was engaged in "industrial" espionage – he gave Russian secret inventions plans abroad. And at the beginning of World War I Riley moved to America.
He returned immediately to the Soviet Union at the request of the management in London. He just hated the Bolsheviks passed a note to Britain that "any cost this abomination that was born in Russia, should be destroyed." Historians say that it was Riley who organized the attempt on Lenin in August 1918, known as the "Conspiracy of three ambassadors." For this he was sentenced in absentia to death.
But the brilliant spy finally was caught on someone else's bait. We know the story called Operation "Trust". Then Soviet spies lured Riley and Socialist Party leader Boris Savinkov to the Union and executed them. But we don’t exactly know, when Solomon was killed. It is told that in 1925. And there are versions that spy even managed to agree with his executioners, and in fact he changed his name and worked in their favor. But his dream was not realized. This Ukrainian Jew sighed: "... I was just in millimeters near to become ruler of Russia." Who knows what would have happened then?
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