Nikolai Vladimirovich Skoblin
Николай Владимирович Скоблин
1893–1937/1938?
✕ Disappeared, death unresolved
A White general turned clandestine Soviet collaborator
After luring Miller to the 1937 meeting, Skoblin vanished from Paris.
Nikolai Skoblin was a White Army officer of the First World War and Russian Civil War who became famous as the young major general commanding the Kornilov Shock Division. In exile he rose within the Russian All-Military Union, yet was recruited by Soviet intelligence and operated inside the émigré military milieu. His alleged role in passing material about a supposed Tukhachevsky conspiracy to Reinhard Heydrich places him at the centre of the dispute over whether forged German documents helped drive the purge or were shaped and used on Stalin’s initiative. After helping abduct Yevgeny Miller in 1937, Skoblin disappeared, and the circumstances of his death remain uncertain.
Career Timeline
- 1914–1917Russian Army officer in the First World War
- 1917–1918Battalion commander in the Kornilov Shock Detachment
- 1918–1920Commander of the Kornilov Shock Regiment and Division, White major general
- 1920–1929Exile in Gallipoli and Bulgaria, commanding the Kornilov Regiment
- 1929–1937Commander of the Kornilov Regiment in the Paris ROVS
- 1935–1937Head of the ROVS Inner Line counter-intelligence
- 1937Disappeared after assisting the abduction of Miller