Dmitri Bystrolyotov was a man out of the movies: handsome & fluent in many languages, he was a sailor, artist, doctor, & artist. He was a spy for Stalin’s Soviet Union who was able to deliver many secrets back to his masters in Moscow. His espionage career came to an end in 1938, however. Join us for a fascinating talk about Bystrolyotov’s rise to greatness and fall from Stalin’s graces with author Emil Draitser, a professor at Hunter College in New York.