The author of this book, Anthony Blunt, was a leading British art historian and curator of the royal collection. At the same time, he worked for Soviet intelligence as part of the Cambridge Five, the most successful intelligence group in the history of the special services. During the period of the onset of fascism in Europe, his choice to stand up for the Soviet Union was determined by the values ​ ​ of humanism that the Renaissance in Italy created. Faith in man and faith in reason are the ideals that stimulated the Enlightenment, the Great French Revolution, the construction of the Soviet Union and the victory over fascism in the Great Patriotic War.