The book includes all the works written by Yulian Semyonov, in which Max Otto von Stirlitz appears, aka Maxim Maksimovich Isaev, aka Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov. The image of Stirlitz was brought to fame by Tatiana Lioznova’s serial television film “Seventeen Moments of Spring,” where the main character was played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov. This character became the most famous image of an intelligence officer in Soviet and post-Soviet culture.