One of the trainees was 23-year-old Anna Kamayeva, who was being prepared for a special mission: to assassinate Hitler. #4 – Anna Kamayeva-Filonenko, “In the fall of 1941, a special task force under the Interior Ministry was training saboteurs in the event that Moscow was captured by Germans. Poisoned Former Russian Spy Recovering Rapidly She died in prison in the French city of Rennes in 1940,” wrote Russia Beyond. Skoblin managed to escape to Spain, where he was soon killed, while Plevitskaya was arrested, tried and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. However, before leaving for the fateful meeting, Miller left a letter that helped to expose the spies. The general was doped and taken to Russia by sea. They managed to lure the general, the head of a major émigré military organization, to an alleged meeting with German diplomats, whose parts were performed by other agents. Their biggest operation was the abduction of General Yevgeny Miller in Paris in 1937. For six years the couple supplied Moscow with information on the state of affairs in Europe’s émigré circles. After emigrating, Plevitskaya married an exiled Russian general, Nikolai Skoblin, and in 1931 both were recruited by the Soviet intelligence service. #5 – Nadezhda Plevitskaya, “She performed to the accompaniment of Sergei Rachmaninoff, while Tsar Nicholas II called her a “Kursk nightingale.” Born to a peasant family, Plevitskaya went from being a nun to becoming one of the most famous singers of her time.
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