This hero enjoys popular love. This illustrious television series has long been a film classic. It is from "Seventeen Moments of Spring" that tens of millions of viewers judge the work of Soviet intelligence during the Patriotic War, taking the plot of the film at face value. But in fact, both the exploits shown here and the image of the protagonist are either fictitious or distorted almost beyond recognition. In reality, everything was completely different. Everything was much more complicated and. "cooler." The truth about the tragic fate of a man who is considered the prototype of Stirlitz, but in fact did not live to 1945, but died in the 42nd due to the mistake of Moscow; hushed details of secret Soviet intelligence operations; genuine background of events and information for reflection - in the new sensational book by Klim Degtyarev. Don't miss it!