Yaroslav Smirnov

About
Marceli Anastazy Kozłow (aka. Yaroslav Smirnov) is a Zedrutian spy working for Bistonian intelligence from 1971 to the 2000s. Born in May 3rd 1950 to Polish parents, at age 21 he would be assigned to spy on countries in the Eastern Bloc in 1971. He would eventually be named among government officials as Yaroslav Smirnov and he would be spotted across various locations such as disguising as a Crimsonian soldier in the Northern Frontlines of New Vilnius during the Crimsonian-Bistonian War and would be spotted in New Shingleton and Steven Ogg International Airport before the beginning of the 1989 New Shingleton Incident.

He was an eyesore towards governments across the world and his legacy feared infiltration within their ranks. It would eventually become worst to the point the cultist movement The Void would provide millions of dollars to many hitmen who could assassinate Yaroslav Smirnov and some eventually ended up failing. He would soon later on pass away at the age of 68 in December 23rd 2018 and his death wouldn't be uncovered until 2 years after his death, when in 2020 Bistonian intelligence announced the death of Marceli Anatazy Kozłow.

Early Life
Marceli Anastazy Kozłow was born in May 3rd 1950 in the city of Kriadavia in Crimsonian Bistonia to Polish parents who originated from Zedrutia and fled the country to Bistonia during the Second Great War. Not much of his early life was known but in his former school he was known among students and teachers that he was intelligent and had overall good performance in school. Marceli would eventually become sick and hospitalized to a hospital in Kriadavia during the Great Famine in 1956 and would nearly die as a result.

Enrollment in Bistonian intelligence
In 1968, Bistonian intelligence had a lack of personnel and spies involved within their operations, as a result they recruited Marceli Anastazy Kozłow after the discovery of their rejected document. Marceli would undergo 6 months of training until he met the qualities enough to become a field agent at the age of 21. He was given a fake identity and he would eventually begin his first mission in the People's Republic of Crimsonia in the year 1971.

During the 80s and 90s, it was unknown how he enrolled in Bistonian intelligence due to a lack of information and many of the documents were classified. It wasn't until a veteran general of the Free Bistonian Army came out of hiding and provided many of the classified documents reportedly coming from the archives of a government building in Kriadavia when he stole it during the Kriadavia Mutiny.

In Crimsonia
Marceli Anastazy Kozłow would eventually arrive to Crimsonia as part of his first mission and gathered fake documents as a businessman and arrived in the city of Kradovo in mid 1971. Along with the help of Bistonian intelligence, Marceli would manage to purchase a small apartment 100 kilometers away from the headquarters of the Crimmitonian Communist Party. He would often arrive to the headquarters during parties and made ties with several diplomats, gathering information through conversations with them. He would eventually collect most of the information and sent many of it to Bistonian intelligence in New Vilnius and had gone away with it when Crimsonian officials discovered many of his suspicious activities. Not much was known about his activities in Crimsonia, but he would be spotted in the city of Telvinra.

Crimsonian intelligence responded to the activities of Bistonian intelligence by also sending spies to the Republic of Bistonia in order to gather information about Marceli Anastazy Kozłow, eventually some of them failed as many of them would be caught in the Bistonqwerty International Airport, one of the major hotspots for Crimsonian spies. Their plans to gather information about the spy failed and as a result Marceli Anastazy Kozłow would completely get away from the presence of Crimsonia.

In the St. Ark Federation
During the Federation War, the Federation government was alerted about the possibility of a spy within their ranks and would eventually discover Marceli. During that time, Marceli Anastazy Kozłow arrived to the St. Ark Federation after receiving instructions from Bistonian intelligence to infiltrate the country during the Federation War. Along with the help of Bistonian intelligence he would arrive to the city of Jefferson as a businessman who owned a factory in the State of New Shingleton. Similar to his first mission in Crimsonia, he would attend parties hosted by Federation diplomats and manipulated many of his diplomats to travel through the frontlines of the Federation War.

During his tour in the frontlines, he gathered information about alleged extermination camps set up by the St. Ark Armed Forces and also gathered information regarding defensive positions on the frontline to help with the beginning of Operation Nagorsk. He would also meet Fred Goldlock on the frontlines which would eventually become the future military dictator of the St. Ark Federation. With all of the information gathered he would send many of them to Bistonian intelligence so they could provide the Bistonian military with information of surrounding defensive positions. His contributions would eventually lead to the partial victory of Operation Nagorsk and Marceli would return back by airplane to the city of Jefferson. He was immediately given a day to flee but many troops of the St. Ark Armed Forces and Federation diplomats were not aware about the intentions of Marceli.

After the discovery of Marceli's intentions and the information gathered regarding concentration camps the St. Ark Federation would eventually place a bounty on Marceli's head along with a sketch of his appearance. However the St. Ark Federation would fail at attempting to capture the spy and as a result they ditched the operation. Marceli would also get away completely from the St. Ark Federation.

Alias
Marceli would eventually return to the Republic of Bistonia in 1979 after the end of the Federation War and Bistonian intelligence discharged him from operations in the year 1980. He would later on purchase a home in the middle of Kriadavia and disguised himself as an average neighbor during the years. It wasn't until in 1986 his activity as a spy would be uncovered as members of the movement The Void raided many government buildings and discovered documents about a field agent named Marceli Anastazy Kozłow, his missions and intentions were discovered immediately and eventually Crimsonia and the St. Ark Federation would take note on his name and would also send agents to discover him. He would later on be called Yaroslav Smirnov, a spy character from the film From Kradovo With Love after many influential members compared Marceli to the fictional character.

The Void
From 1986 until his abrupt end of the mission after 1 year 1987, Marceli would also infiltrate the movement The Void, as the movement had increasingly gone violent during the recent demonstrations hosted which resulted in Marceli having his cover blown. As a result Marceli would be required to infiltrate the movement in order to gather information of future demonstrations across the city of New Vilnius so that Bistonian police forces would know the coordinates of the attacks. Marceli would eventually begin his infiltration when he would be disguised as a college student and he would be invited to the Void's underground network of headquarters and after a background check he was immediately allowed entry within the movement.

He attended in numerous areas where influential members of the movement would host a statement towards members of the movement and gathered information on future demonstrations in certain areas and would send them to Bistonian intelligence where it would be handed over to the Bistonian police force in which would become effective. Eventually The Void would quickly become aware of the coordinated movements of the Bistonian police force and suspected a spy was involved. A day after one of the police officers who infiltrated the ranks would discover a document regarding Marceli's involvement and The Void would quickly hide out in panic. By the time they had discovered that Marceli was a spy a police force was tasked to raid the underground networks whichb ended up in success.

The Void had grew to fear Marceli and his infiltration techniques and in early 1987 the movement would offer a payment of millions of dollars to who could discover him. His bounty would eventually end up in failure despite many talented hitmen hunting Marceli and his activities. By then the Crimsonian-Bistonian War had begun and in 1987 hunting operations came to an abrupt end including Marceli's infiltration.

Crimsonian-Bistonian War
In 1987, the People's Republic of Crimsonia declared war on the Republic of Bistonia after months of fierce tensions between the two. This forced Marceli to go hiding as Crimsonian officials before the war had begun their search to discover Marceli. Marceli would eventually hide in the underground sewers of Kriadavia and would partially disappear until early 1989. During the Kriadavia Mutiny, a general from the Bistonian Armed Forces stole documents from an abandoned government building and would discover documents regarding Marceli. He would hide for 11 years until he came off clean to Bistonian officials regarding the stealing of documents.

Marceli would eventually escape the underground sewers of Kriadavia and purposely crossed the border of FBA occupied Kriadavia and eventually disguising himself as a soldier from the Crimsonian army, he would participate in the Vilnius Offensive and he would eventually use it as an opportunity to move to the city of New Vilnius in order to regain contact with Bistonian intelligence. He arrived along with Crimsonian troops at the city of New Vilnius and they were immediately welcomed with gunfire by peacekeeper forces from the Commonwealth of United and Free Nations. He was injured in the skirmish but he would eventually get out of his disguise. Not much was known about his whereabouts after the skirmish, but he would be soon spotted by tourists at a flight to the St. Ark Federation.

New Shingleton Incident
In 1989, the New Shingleton Incident occured as a result of Crimsonia's drastic attempts to win the Crimsonian-Bistonian War, immediately contributing to the collapse of Fred Goldlock's regime. Before the beginning of the New Shingleton Incident, eyewitnesses would spot a man who wore a black suit, black gloves and items that would match the description of Marceli himself. It was not known whether or not Marceli was spotted before the New Shingleton Incident, but many eyewitnesses would say that Marceli was acting suspicious.

Bistonian intelligence came to his defense claiming that the field agent had no intentions of committing a terrorist attack and claimed they were not responsible or involved within the attack, Bistonian intelligence would also help compensate towards the victims of the New Shingleton Incident.

It was also assumed that Marceli was among one of the people shot dead by St. Ark military police during the crackdown on the violent crowd inside Steven Ogg International Airport and that Marceli was among one of the refugees inside the Boeing 747 aircraft that was shot down, however after several body counts and thorough searching none of the bodies ever matched Marceli's description as stated by the eyewitnesses and survivors during the New Shingleton Incident. However during the defence of Bistonian intelligence they had stated in a conference that Marceli is still alive and living in the city of Kriadavia.

Retirement
In 1991, Marceli Anastazy Kozłow would resign from Bistonian intelligence at the age of 41, stating that he would want to move on and claimed that he did not want to risk his life doing missions across the countries, he would also be given protection by Bistonian intelligence in the aftermath of his retirement and would be honoured with a series of badges. However not much was known about his retirement and his future jobs.

However, because of the secrecy surrounding Marceli Anastazy Kozłow it wasn't until in the year 1999 that the public would soon realize that Marceli had resigned and retired from his position as a field agent. By that time his enrollment into Bistonian intelligence in 1971 had been leaked to the public and put many of his personal information at risk of being revealed.

Later life
Marceli Anastazy Kozłow would move to a dilapidated small house a mile away from his hometown city of Kriadavia in 1992 and put on a new disguise as his personal information was at risk. He would later on obtain a small job for the rest of his life and would drastically become an alcoholic and a heavy smoker which would contribute to Marceli catching lung cancer at the age of 67.

Eventually during his later life, Marceli Anastazy Kozłow would be diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2017 and would be given medication, however his disease would progressively get worse and he would eventually be hospitalized as a result of his progressive disease. He would be given rounds of chemotherapy and slowly started to recover from lung cancer and he would return back to his dilapidated home. However eventually after his return his disease would get worse again and in late 2018 he was hospitalized again.

Death & Burial
Because of his progressive disease, Marceli Anastazy Kozłow was hospitalized and treatments were ineffective for him, at that point he became fragile and in December 23rd 2018 Marceli Anastazy Kozłow would pass away due to lung cancer in the midnight hours of December 23rd 2018 in a hospital in Kriadavia. Many members of Bistonian intelligence began mourning his death in the aftermath of his death and 3 days later in December 26th 2018 Marceli would be buried in an unknown location in the city of New Vilnius with the reason being national security.

His death was not known and it wasn't until 2 years later in 2020 that Bistonian intelligence officially announced the death of Marceli Anastazy Kozłow in the 2nd anniversary of his death, reactions were mixed towards his death when some claimed that Marceli was a hero as he contributed to the victory of Bistonian troops during Operation Nagorsk, while some claimed that Marceli was a coward.