History of Russia: Exhibition "Foreign Intelligence Service. From the Past to the Future" presented in Moscow

The Museum of Contemporary History of Russia (Moscow) launched the exhibition "Foreign Intelligence Service. From the Past to the Future", marking the centenary of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. It will run until March 31, 2021.

The exhibition presents materials illustrating the fates and activities of the leaders and legendary officers of foreign intelligence. They are people of different generations of the XX-XXI centuries, who devoted themselves to Motherland. Until recent times, their names were the subject of a dead secret; most of them are still known only to a few specialists.

Lots of the unique exhibition artefacts are shown to the general public for the first time. The exposition features personal belongings of F. E. Dzerzhinsky and the heads of the Foreign Intelligence Service: S. A. Messing, A. Kh. Artuzov, P. M. Fitin, A. M. Sakharovsky, L. V. Shebarshin, E. M. Primakov, as well as legendary intelligent officers: A. N. Botyan, I. R. Grigulevich, A. S. Feklisov, Cohen and Vartanyan married couples, K. Philby, J. Blake, V. G. Fisher, Yu. I. Drozdov and many others.

Besides, visitors will see declassified documents of the Foreign Intelligence Service and relevant artworks.