Memoirs of the beloved children's writer of many generations, Sergei Mikhalkov, and his younger brother Mikhail, a writer, poet, songwriter, who worked under the pseudonym Andronov, will reveal for you the secret of the longevity and prosperity of the Mikhalkov dynasty. Sergei Vladimirovich vividly and with great humor talks about his meetings with many of the most famous people of the last century. Writer Mikhail Mikhalkov, whose work is represented by the book “In the Labyrinths of Mortal Risk” (1953, first published in Russian in 1991), is a man of a unique destiny. An illegal agent, who spoke on equal terms with Otto Skorzeny, the largest industrialists and financial magnates of Europe, tells a fascinating story of his life full of heroic adventures.