Kudriavtsev, Sergei	Variant Gorgulova. Roman iz gazet. M., Gileia [1999] 430 p.	€25,00

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Small 8 vo, publisher´s binding. Magnificent collages on front and back covers by A. Bondarenko. FINE. A brilliant investigative documentary compiled from carefully researched and analyzed articles in Russian émigré and French newspapers of the period on murder of French President Paul Doumer by Paul Gorguloff, originally Pavel Timofeevich Gorgulov (1895 – 1932), a Russian émigré doctor medicus and poet (Pavel [Paul] Bred, pseudonim). Gorgulov killed Paul Doumer on 6 May 1932, at the book fair, being held at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris.One of the authors at the exhibition, Claude Farrère, managed to wrestle with Gorguloff until the police arrived. Gorguloff's motive for the murder, according to his staement, was that he believed that France had failed to support the anti-Bolshevik Movement in Russia against the Reds. 'Gorguloff was born in Labinskaya in the Kuban region. He studied medicine but never finished the course before serving in the First World War, in which he was badly wounded in the head. During the Russian Revolution of 1917, he served with the White Russian Army, before emigrating to Prague, where, as he claimed, he completed his studies. He was later expelled from Czechoslovakia for practising abortion, which was illegal at the time. He moved to Paris and then to Nice, where in 1931 he was again found to be committing illegal medical acts and was threatened with expulsion. He applied for a permit to live in Monaco, which was accepted, and he lived there until 4 May 1932. Gorguloff was arrested, tried and died at La Santé prison in Paris, France by guillotine. His defence of insanity was rejected. His last words were 'Russia, my country!'- Adapted from Wikipidea. According to Colonel Fedor Ivanovich Eliseev [Elysee] there was much more to the official story and himself he had doubts Gorguloff´s real identity.