It’s like a legend: some time after the triumphant premiere of the mini-series “Seventeen Moments of Spring,” Oleg Tabakov received a New Year’s card from Germany. The niece of the same chief of German foreign intelligence, Walter Schellenberg, whom Oleg Pavlovich brilliantly played in the series, wrote. A relative of the Brigadeführer sincerely thanked Tabakov for the truthful and kind image of her uncle... People's Artist of the USSR Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov starred in more than 120 films, and he did not leave the theater stage until the very beginning of his serious illness. The author explores the work of the great actor from a completely unexpected angle, and Oleg Pavlovich appears before us from an unusual perspective: he is a philosopher, a sage, and a politician; he is desperately brave and daring; he is contradictory and unpredictable, but at the same time remains such a familiar, dear and close person to us.