The court summed up

Today in the Moscow City Court announced the verdict of Gennady Kravtsov, who sent his resume to Sweden, thereby allegedly issuing secret information. A former GRU employee was sentenced to 14 years in prison. His wife Alla is trying to understand why

Gennady Kravtsov, a former radio engineer in the GRU, quit organs in 2005. In 2010, he tried to get a job abroad and sent his resume to Sweden, but was refused. In 2013, he sent the same letter to Belarus, after which they became interested in Russian special services. A year later, in May 2014, he was arrested under Article 275 of the Criminal Code (state treason). The reason was the ill -fated resume, sent to Sweden, in which he described his work experience and thereby, in the opinion of the investigation, he committed a treason. The process passed behind closed doors, and everything was so secret that the lawyers did not allow not only to conduct an independent examination of the letter, but also to interrogate experts, and get acquainted with any other documents. Moreover, they were even refused an official audio record. And this whole wall of secrecy was erected around the Spacecraft “Zelendin-2”, which, according to Kravtsov’s lawyer, has been flying for ten years now.

Gena is a romantic, he always raved with space. He graduated from the Mozhaisky Military Porcelain Academy, which produced elite military. He worked in the GRU, but left there in 2005-neither money nor prospects. It seemed to him that space intelligence, which was literally his life, no one else needs here. I advised him to leave this sphere and go, for example, to an IT -School Bank. He was offended-he believed that he should benefit the Motherland, and the bank was somehow small and selfish.

When he realized that no one needed here, he began to think whether he would try to find a job abroad. He wrote a resume, translated it through Google-Translate. He just wrote that he participated somewhere in something. He considered that five years passed (it was in 2010) and there was no more secrecy.

In fact, he was not going to leave in a good way, I immediately said that I would not go anywhere, and without us with the children he would definitely not fly. He wanted to know if he was in demand somewhere else, or you can already put an end to the profession. Well, at the same time, to prove to me and colleagues that he is a really good specialist who is simply not appreciated. By the way, at first I thought that he had a mania of greatness, but his colleagues explained to me that he was really a high -class specialist and brains in his place. A polite refusal came from Sweden, they said that they were hiring only citizens of their state.

I thought it would end there. But no. Gene learned that at his native institute - the Mozhaik - practically stopped recruiting Russians, and took students from Belarus. From which he concluded that here the industry fell apart, but there is no yet. He wanted to invest his knowledge, to teach someone. And then he wrote a letter. On paper, put into an envelope, sealed and scored the “Minister of Defense of Belarus”. Naturally, it did not even reach Belarus.

Gennady Kravtsov Photo: From Personal Archive

I think he just wanted to be noticed. He believed that when this letter was read “upstairs”, he would be called, and he would open his eyes to the fact that everything fell apart. So naive. Leaving the army, he lost his vigilance. He would not have written this letter in normal conditions, but, apparently, it was so baked that he had to convey his indignation to someone. Therefore, when he was called to the investigator for the first time, he calmly went, sat on the polygraph all day and told them everything in detail. It was as if there was neither the 37th nor his grandfather who rotted on Solovki. He probably thought that they were honest, now he would tell them, they would go and figure it out.

For a whole year he grazed, listened to the phone, put a bug in the car. Just listening to us, we did not even particularly discuss politics.

We were already on the hook, but did not know that. In April - June 2014, they began to detain everyone in “espionage” cases - Petrin, Soloshenko, Minakova. Then we took a computer without any arrest order. They unofficially said: if we find something on the computer, then we will plant. If not, then conditional. Gene immediately said that there is nothing to be planted for. He believed them. And I believed him. Although, it would seem, I read everything - Shalamov, Solzhenitsyn, Zhigulin. We already bought a tour to Greece, we had to fly away on the 31st. And on May 26, 2014, the gene was detained.

The investigator immediately told me that there is no need to take any lawyer, that this still would not help The investigator immediately told me to twist this quote that there is no need to take any lawyer, that this still would not help, that is, he immediately made it clear to me that the Gen would still be imprisoned. And so it turns out: the lawyers did not give the words to say. This is a former pear, how can they let him go?! These are epaulettes and intimidation, so that the rest would be disassembled.

They needed him. Now they will condemn him in closed mode, and that’s it. Spy, pure water spy! Davydova is a housewife, Minakov - a midshipman on the ship that they can know. And the Gena had access, it is perfect for them for the role of a spy. Initially told me this, all lawyers predicted that they would give for seven years. But seven years is not 14. For what?

I think that investigators perfectly see everything and understand that a real spy would never do such nonsense. It is obvious that Gene is a naive honest person who wanted to live in an ideal society.

The first lawyer advised me to admit, to make a deal with the investigation, said that they would give less. Gene only said: "Take him away from me!" At first he cried in prison. From resentment. What he did so much, worked for 15 years to his homeland, and his homeland is 14 years old for this.

They also warned me immediately: no publicity, no press, otherwise the article shines for me too-283rd (disclosure of state secrets). After the liberation of Davydova, I came to the investigator and said, they say, and then let me go. Enough, I say, to scare me, I will now also make public. After that, they stopped giving us dates, and literally the very next day in all news editions there was information that they caught a spy. That is, they got ahead of me, managed to give the public information, but with a minus sign. But we still have a saying about "there is no smoke without fire." While people themselves will not face it, they are, as before, are sacredly convinced that they are not planted “just like that”. The worst thing is lawlessness. Whoever you are, you can capture you, and neither lawyers, nobody will help you. The worst thing is lawlessness. Whoever you are, you can capture you, and neither lawyers will help, no one Twisting this quote, we all have already passed it, but now we are surprised. I asked the investigator then: what, 37 years began, they began to plant everyone in a row? He will be to me: you will be both the 37th and the 41st.

Before that, even a meeting in the investigator’s office was arranged, hoped that he would talk. Once the investigator called me and said: “Tomorrow is Gennady's birthday. You can come, bring a treat, you can capture relatives. ” I prepared food, took my parents, and we went. The investigator seemed to quickly regret that he invited us - his son ran everywhere, asked: “And who is this?”, Poking in the portraits of Dzerzhinsky and Beria hung on the walls. After that, the investigator ordered not to come with the child anymore.

Once I tried to look into the hall with Antoshka. Well, so that he and his father even see each other. The bailiffs said that they would allow if the judge resolves. As a result, the chairman of the court said that he, they say, did not solve anything, and then the General’s did not do the Vtyk, they say, why his wife was carrying the child in court, the same injure the children's psyche. And for 14 years to the father, of course, will not be injured! I believe that children need to tell about everything, take them with them so that they see their father, albeit through glass. Vasilisa is four, she is still small, and Antoshka is nine, I have already recorded him on the next date.

The conditions of detention in the pre -trial detention center are normal, two are sitting in two, but they plant all sorts of interesting personalities. The first was obviously lodging - he met Gena as his own father, heated, gave him a notebook, his sweater, sneakers, it seems like he was a rich businessman. And he constantly offered the gene that he would transfer money to our mortgage account (we took a mortgage shortly before his arrest, and bought the apartment on Preobrazhenka, not far from the Moscow City Court, as we knew). And Gene, naive, believed and told me: they came somehow in a letter (precisely in a letter) the account number, and he will give us money. I immediately realized that this is a provocation-either he wants to turn some of his divisions through our account, or a transfer from some Swedish bank will come to the expense.

Very often, Muslims were planted to him, even from ISIS (a terrorist organization banned in Russia - TD) , he writes that it is most interesting to sit with them because they are believers. About the rest, Gene carefully writes that "there is nothing to talk about with them." But he is trying to see something good in all. For example, it turned out that one of those with whom “there is nothing to talk about” collects clippings from newspapers, where the phones of those who need some help are written and passes them to the lawyer so that the lads helped.

Family Kravtsov Photo: From Personal Archive

Previously, Gene was an indestructible, he went to the temple with me at the same time, did not take communion, did not confess. And in prison he believed. In letters, the tips gives me spiritual - to love my tragedy, to carry your cross. I have such an original husband. I answered him: bring your cross myself, and I will live. True, I didn’t send it. I have several letters of these, I will write something evil to him in the evening, and in the morning I think you can’t send this to him. He will return home - reads. They lie in envelopes, sealed.

Gene himself writes very interesting letters, I learned him much better for these years and a half than in eight years of marriage. He writes everything he thinks. “My understanding of Christianity, as it should be, is close to the position of Zoe Krahmalnikova. She condemns, but logically justifies the justice of the law. Neophaarilia rejects parishioners, but at present all the more so. The most important phrase of Christ from the Gospel is for me: "Take people as you want people to do with you." Therefore, I will condemn people for their lies and lawlessness. And I want me to be judged by my sins. But another thing is also true: I must come to the aid of people, because I want people to come to my aid. I want me to be convicted and punished, but upon presentation to me evidence of my guilt. Conviction without evidence is lawlessness. I would like to then become a human rights activist or help human rights activists, volunteers. For Russia, this is always important and relevant. During my stay here, I became more sensitive to the troubles of other people. ”

And nothing, censorship passes. It seems that he does not have the instinct of self -preservation. His great-grandfather Illarion Schutsky disappeared for the same notes in 1937. This notebook was with us-in 1989, it was returned to us from the KGB. First, Schutsky wrote about what a bad king, then the Bolsheviks came, he began to praise the Bolsheviks, wrote Odes to Lenin and, too, like a gene, was busy with a state structure, wrote, "how to equip Russia." And then the surpasses began, and he was a wealthy peasant and recorded everything that he thought - what bastards of the Bolsheviks, how they all seize. At the same time, he often got drunk and struck his wife and daughters. And one of them-either her mother persuaded her, or guessed her herself,-said at school that, they say, her father writes something against the Soviet regime. The locals came for him, sent to Moscow - and ten years without the right to correspondence. And the notebook has been preserved.

My one is, mine is a hero. Sits in prison and does not give up Twist this quote last Monday after the debate, the lawyer left the hall (the whole court passes on a closed mode, they are not allowed into the hall) and told me that the prosecutor requested 15 years. I’ll wise home, and only in my head is spinning: “How to live, how to live after that?” I’m going to the porch, and I was rushing about me-an old man in a hat and with a bucket. Suddenly he turns to me:

- Can you ask the question?

I am tired of him:

- In the connection with what?

He says:

- Do you want to live?

I:

- Why are you interested in this?

- Well, do you want to live?

- Only in this country.

He:

- What is the country? I ask you: do you want to live? - The third time repeats.

- Well, of course, I want.

—The and live. With God.

And went. The next day I only realized that he gave me an answer to my question. And that this is really my only chance. After all, if I am now falling into hatred against the state, against the system, then I just can’t survive.

I hope that I will wait for Gena, because it is better to never meet anyway. Of course, at first, when I came across couples or family on the street, I thought with bitterness: “Here, normal women have normal husbands who do not write stupid letters.” And then I suddenly realized that mine is like that, mine is a hero. He sits in prison and does not give up.