Stirlitz. Was there really a Stirlitz

Stirlitz's name is on everyone's lips. Who is he? Is this a fictional character or a real person? When did he live? Why are they talking about him now? You will find answers to these questions in the article.

So who is Stirlitz? This is the most famous. Any representative of the older generation in the CIS will answer without hesitation that this is a famous character in the novels of Julian Semenov. An experienced and inveterate spy from "17 Moments of Spring", talentedly played in the cinema by Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Expressions from this legendary film have long become winged and are known to almost everyone. And there are many anecdotes about the famous SS Standartenfuehrer.

Max Otto von Stirlitz, also known as Maxim Maksimovich Isaev, is found in more than one of Semenov's works. Gradually, they reveal his origin, interests and how the young Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov becomes first Maxim Isaev, and then Stirlitz.

Spy biography

The parents of the outstanding intelligence officer met in Transbaikalia, where they were exiled for their political views. Vsevolod was born on October 8, 1900. After 5 years his mother could not cope with consumption and died.

The young intelligence officer began to work under the pseudonym of Isaev already in 1920. During this period, he served as an employee of the press service. A year later, Vladimirov worked as deputy head of the foreign department of the Cheka. Then, in 1921, he was sent to Estonia.

The underground activities of the young Chekist are rapidly gaining momentum, in 1922, introduced into the White Guard troops, he ends up in Manchuria. For the next 30 years, he has been collecting intelligence for the good of the homeland far beyond its borders.

The appearance of Stirlitz

Who is Stirlitz? This is the same young intelligence officer Maxim Isaev. In 1927, he was transferred from Europe to troubled Germany, where the Nazi party was gaining strength. It was then that the representative of the German aristocracy, Max Otto von Stirlitz, appeared.

During World War II, Colonel Isaev works in the headquarters of the imperial security. For his many and undeniable services to the Fatherland, Vsevolod Vladimirov received the title of Hero. But despite this, in 1947 Stirlitz ended up in a Soviet prison, where he played his own game.

Personal life

Unlike his literary and film colleagues in the workshop, Stirlitz is extremely cold and indifferent to the opposite sex. This is explained not by the insensitivity and callousness of the intelligence officer, but by the fact that there is no free space in his heart. The spy carried his love for Alexandra Nikolaevna Gavrilina, who remained at home, throughout his life. Despite the long separation, this woman answered him in the same way and even gave birth to a child from him in 1923, which Maxim Maksimovich learns about only in 1941.

Unfortunately, Yulian Semyonov did not foresee a happy family life for his hero, on the orders of Stirlitz and his son will be shot in 1947.

To know everything about Stirlitz, you have to read 14 novels about this hero.

The character, interests and preferences of Stirlitz

How was Stirlitz's youth? What was he really like? While in Bern with his father during emigration, young Vsevolod worked part-time in a newspaper. Largely due to this, the future spy acquired an interest and love for literature.

Vladimirov possesses all the qualities necessary for a scout. He is smart, calculating and cool-headed. Knows how to quickly analyze, evaluate and navigate in any situation.

Vsevolod would never have turned into Maxim Isaev, and even more so Stirlitz, had he not been a good actor and psychologist. These skills helped him so skillfully to penetrate into any enemy team and create the appearance of good relations with forced colleagues.

Stirlitz prefers noble cognac among alcoholic beverages. Although sometimes he can afford a glass of cold light beer.

Stirlitz prototypes

There are many assumptions about who could be the prototype of this intelligence agent known throughout the post-Soviet space. One can only guess whose features Semyonov endowed his hero with.

What did Stirlitz look like? You see a photo of a person in the article. This is how the creator of the image saw him. It is known for certain that the author found inspiration by scrupulously studying the archives of the special services. Every story about Stirlitz hides real events and people. Those whose names were hidden by pseudonyms and spy legends, and declassified only after many years.

Of course, the literary hero could not do without artistic exaggeration. For example, Stirlitz is characterized not only as a good tennis player, but as the champion of Berlin in this sport. In real life, combining hard work in intelligence with constant training and competition would hardly work.

Who is Stirlitz? Film "17 Moments of Spring"

The famous film has become legendary for more than 40 years. The premiere of this iconic painting was watched by 200 million people.

Today it is simply impossible to imagine Stirlitz performed by another actor. But there were also candidates besides Tikhonov, who, in general, was involved in the film by accident.

Archil Gomiashvili auditioned for this role, but he did not fit according to some parameters presented by Yulian Semyonov. But he could not leave his native theater for such a long time (filming lasted 3 years).

Before the tests, Vyacheslav Tikhonov was made up and awarded with a magnificent mustache. This external image of the scout shocked him. But after some improvements and the actor's willingness to give himself entirely to this film, due to the lack of other work, it was he who was approved for the role.

On-screen Maxim Isaev brought the actor, in addition to nationwide recognition, fame and love of women, also an order.

Tikhonov harmoniously complemented the picture not only with his acting, but also offered the director a scene with his wife, who did not originally exist in the script. This was prompted by the story of a friend about the meeting of his colleagues from the special services with their wives during their work abroad.

Some inconsistencies and facts

Stirlitz is a man filled with secrets and riddles. Here are some inconsistencies and facts that are perplexing:

In reality, the surname of a famous intelligence officer does not exist. Although there is a close-sounding Stieglitz. In addition, there was a real historical character, Vice Admiral of the German Navy Ernst Stieglitz.
Despite his outstanding espionage skills, Maxim Isaev could hardly have infiltrated such high ranks. The Nazis were too meticulous in checking the SS. He would have had to take the place of an existing German with an impeccable reputation for several generations, and not just provide real documents.
Even lower-ranking colleagues do not use the "von" prefix when addressing Stirlitz. This is allowed, but in those years it was still rare. Moreover, according to legend, Stirlitz has a noble origin.
In all units of the NSDAP, smoking was strictly prohibited. Police officers were not allowed to smoke during working hours. Isaev easily breaks this rule.
The pub, which the scout liked to spend time in, "Rough Gottlieb" is actually the restaurant "Last Resort" in Berlin.
And the restaurant, beloved by the hero, where Stirlitz meets his wife, is not at all in Germany, but in the Czech Republic.

Who is Stirlitz? This is a man of mystery about whom it is difficult to say something unambiguously. Whether this person actually lived or not is difficult to answer. Everyone has their own opinion on this matter. But in any case, the image is quite interesting. Is not it?

Stirlitz, TV series "17 Moments of Spring"

Max Otto von Stierlitz (German Max Otto von Stierlitz (by analogy with the real German surname Stiegliz; it is also possible to write Stiglitz, respectively Stirlitz; actually the Stirlitz surname is not found in German-speaking countries); he is also Maxim Maximovichirovich Isavolovich Vsevolodlich, real ) - a literary character, the hero of many works of the Soviet writer Yulian Semyonov, an SS standartenfuehrer, an illegal Soviet intelligence agent who worked in the interests of the USSR in Nazi Germany and some other countries. Tatiana Lioznova's TV serial "Seventeen Moments of Spring" based on the novel of the same name, where he was played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov, brought all-Union fame to the image of Stirlitz. This character has become the most famous image of an intelligence officer in Soviet and post-Soviet culture.

Biography

Contrary to popular belief, the real name of Stirlitz is not Maxim Maksimovich Isaev, as it can be assumed from "Seventeen Moments of Spring", but Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov. The surname Isaev is presented by Yulian Semyonov as the operational pseudonym of Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov already in the first novel about him - "Diamonds for the dictatorship of the proletariat."

Maxim Maksimovich Isaev - Stirlitz - Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov - was born on October 8, 1900 ("Expansion - I") in Transbaikalia, where his parents were in political exile. If you believe Stirlitz himself, he spent some time in his childhood in the vicinity of the old Russian town of Gorokhovets. It should be noted that Yulian Semyonov does not say that his hero was born here: "Stirlitz realized that he was drawn precisely to this lake, because he grew up on the Volga, near Gorokhovets, where there were exactly the same yellow-blue pines" ... Gorokhovets itself stands on the Klyazma River, and it is far from the Volga. But Isaev could spend his childhood "on the Volga near Gorokhovets", since the Gorokhovets district that existed at that time was 4 times larger than the current Gorokhovets district and in the northern part reached the Volga.

Parents:

Father - Russian, Vladimir Alexandrovich Vladimirov, "professor of law at St. Petersburg University, fired for free thinking and closeness to the circles of social democracy." Involved in the revolutionary movement by Georgy Plekhanov.

Mother - Ukrainian, Olesya Ostapovna Prokopchuk, died of consumption when her son was five years old.

It is known that in 1911 the paths of Vladimirov Sr. and the Bolsheviks parted. After the revolution, in 1921 - while his son was in Estonia - Vladimir Vladimirov was sent on a business trip to Eastern Siberia and there tragically died at the hands of the White Guards.

Relatives on the mother's side:

Grandfather - Ostap Nikitich Prokopchuk, a Ukrainian revolutionary democrat, also exiled to the Trans-Baikal exile with his children Olesya and Taras. After exile he returned to Ukraine, and from there to Krakow. He died in 1915.

Uncle - Taras Ostapovich Prokopchuk. In Krakow he married Wanda Krushanskaya. In 1918 he was shot.

Cousin - Ganna Tarasovna Prokopchuk. Two children. Professional activity: architect. In 1941, her entire family was killed in Nazi concentration camps ("The Third Map"). She died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

In 1920, Vsevolod Vladimirov worked under the name of captain Maxim Maksimovich Isaev in the press service of the Kolchak government.

In May 1921, the bands of Baron Ungern, having seized power in Mongolia, tried to strike at Soviet Russia. Vsevolod Vladimirov, disguised as a White Guard captain, infiltrated Ungern's headquarters and handed over to his command the enemy's military-strategic plans.

In 1921 he was already in Moscow, "working for Dzerzhinsky" as an assistant to the head of the foreign department of the Cheka, Gleb Bokiy. From here Vsevolod Vladimirov is sent to Estonia ("Diamonds for the dictatorship of the proletariat").

In 1922, a young Chekist underground worker Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov, on behalf of the leadership, was evacuated with white troops from Vladivostok to Japan, and from there moved to Harbin ("No password needed", "Tenderness"). Over the next 30 years, he was constantly in overseas work.

Meanwhile, in his homeland, he still has his only love for life and a son, born in 1923. The son's name was Alexander (the operational pseudonym in the intelligence of the Red Army - Kolya Grishanchikov), his mother - Alexandra Nikolaevna ("Major Whirlwind"), or Alexandra Romanovna ("No password needed") Gavrilina. Stirlitz first learned about his son in 1941 from an employee of the Soviet trade mission in Tokyo, where he went to meet with Richard Sorge. In the fall of 1944, SS Standartenfuehrer von Stirlitz accidentally meets his son in Krakow - he is here as part of a reconnaissance and sabotage group (Major Whirlwind).

From 1924 to 1927, Vsevolod Vladimirov lives in Shanghai.

In connection with the strengthening of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and the aggravation of the danger of Adolf Hitler's coming to power in Germany in 1927, it was decided to send Maxim Maksimovich Isaev from the Far East to Europe. For this, the legend was created about Max Otto von Stirlitz, a German aristocrat robbed in Shanghai, seeking protection at the German consulate in Sydney. In Australia, Stirlitz worked for some time in a hotel with a German owner associated with the NSDAP, after which he was transferred to New York.

From the party characteristics of a member of the NSDAP since 1933, von Stirlitz, SS Standartenfuehrer

(VI Division of the RSHA): “A true Aryan. Character - Nordic, self-possessed. He maintains good relations with workmates. Performs his official duty impeccably. Merciless to the enemies of the Reich. Excellent athlete: Berlin tennis champion. Single; in connections, discrediting him, was not noticed. Awarded with the Fuhrer's awards and thanks from the Reichsfuehrer SS ... "

During the Second World War, Stirlitz was an employee of the VI Department of the RSHA, headed by SS Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg. In his operational work at the RSHA he used the pseudonyms "Brunn" and "Bolsen". In 1938 he worked in Spain ("Spanish version"), in March-April 1941 - as part of the group of Edmund Weesenmaier in Yugoslavia ("Alternative"), and in June - in Poland and in the occupied territory of Ukraine, where he communicated with Theodore Oberlander, Stepan Bandera and Andrey Melnik ("The Third Card").

In 1943, he visited Smolensk, where he demonstrated exceptional courage under Soviet shelling.

At the end of the war, Joseph Stalin entrusted Stirlitz with a responsible task: to disrupt the separate negotiations between the Germans and the West. Beginning in the summer of 1943, SS Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler, through his proxies, began to maintain contacts with representatives of the Western special services in order to conclude a separate peace. Thanks to the courage and intelligence of Stirlitz, these negotiations were thwarted ("Seventeen Moments of Spring"). Of the Americans who negotiated behind the scenes with the leaders of the Third Reich, Yulian Semyonov points to Allen Dulles, who headed the American headquarters in Bern, the Swiss capital.

The head of the 4th department of the RSHA was SS Gruppenfuehrer Heinrich Müller, who exposed Stirlitz in April 1945, but the coincidence of circumstances and the chaos that took place during the storming of Berlin thwarted Müller's plans to use Stirlitz in a game against the command of the Red Army ("Ordered to survive").

Stirlitz's favorite drink is Armenian cognac, his favorite cigarettes are Karo, Camel without a filter. He drives a Horch car. Unlike James Bond, Stirlitz treats women in cold blood (which does not exclude short bed episodes, as in the novel "Ordered to Survive"). To the calls of prostitutes, he usually replies: "No, better coffee." Speech characteristic, repeated from work to work: the phrase often ends with the question "No?" or "Isn't it?"

Before the end of the war, Stirlitz was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After the end of World War II, Stirlitz in an unconscious state, wounded by a Soviet soldier, was taken by the Germans to Spain, from where he went to South America. There he reveals a conspiratorial network of Nazis who fled Germany.

During and after the Second World War he worked under several pseudonyms: Bolsen, Brunn and others. As a name, I usually used variations of the name "Maxim": Max, Massimo ("Expansion").

In Argentina and Brazil, Stirlitz works with the American Paul Rouman. Here they uncover the conspiratorial Nazi organization "ODESSA", which is led by Müller, and then carry out the identification of the agent network and the capture of Müller. Realizing that after Winston Churchill's speech in Fulton and Hoover's "witch hunt" Mueller could escape punishment for his crimes, they decide to extradite him to the Soviet government. Stirlitz goes to the Soviet embassy, \u200b\u200bwhere he reports who he is, as well as information about Mueller's whereabouts. MGB officers carry out the arrest of Stirlitz and are transported by boat to the USSR. Isaev goes to prison ("Despair"). There he meets Raoul Wallenberg and plays his own game. Meanwhile, his son and wife are being shot at Stalin's orders. After the death of Beria, Stirlitz is released.

A month after being awarded the Golden Star, he began to work at the Institute of History on the topic “National Socialism, Neo-Fascism; modifications of totalitarianism ”. After reviewing the text of the thesis, the secretary of the Central Committee Mikhail Suslov recommended conferring on comrade Vladimirov an academic degree of doctor of sciences without defense, and withdrawing the manuscript, transferring it to the special storage ...

Once again, he will meet with his old acquaintances from the RSHA, former Nazis, in West Berlin in 1967 (Bomb for the Chairman, 1970). This time, aged, but not losing his grip, Isaev managed to prevent a private corporation from stealing nuclear technologies and faced a radical sect from Southeast Asia ...

In addition to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, awarded in 1945, as of 1940 he was awarded two more Orders of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner (Major Whirlwind). He also received awards from France, Poland, Yugoslavia and Norway ("Bomb for the Chairman").

Radio show

In 1984, radio "Mayak" created a multi-part radio show "Ordered to Survive" based on the novel of the same name. Director - Emil Wernik; staged by Sergei Karlov. The production was conceived as a radio continuation of the famous television movie "17 Moments of Spring": it sounded the same music as in the film, Mikael Tariverdiev's music, and the main roles were played by the same actors: Vyacheslav Tikhonov (Stirlitz), Leonid Bronevoy (Muller), Oleg Tabakov (Schellenberg). The text from the author was read by Mikhail Gluzsky.

Jokes

Stirlitz is a character in Soviet and Russian jokes, usually they parody the voice of the narrator, constantly commenting on Stirlitz's thoughts or the events of the film. In the series "Seventeen Moments of Spring" it was the voice of the BDT actor Yefim Kopelyan. On this basis, Efim Zakharovich was called Efim Zakadrovich behind his back.

Stirlitz in literary works

The literary character Stirlitz has firmly entered various cultural spheres of life: he becomes the hero of literary sequels and collections of anecdotes, episodes from original works are reflected in the works of other authors. Stirlitz is a hero of pop songs, pop parodies, computer games.

1987 - Ass P. N., Begemotov N. O. Shtirlits. Operation Igels, or How hedgehogs breed: an anecdote novel - a novel from the times of perestroika, was first published in samizdat. Has several sequel novels written by the same co-authors

1994 - Chumichev S. How Koloboks Reproduce, or Stirlitz vs. Super Spy: A Parody Novel.

2000 - Andrey Lazarchuk. Sturmvogel. A scene in the epilogue of the novel in which Stirlitz meets with a contact from the center in a Swiss restaurant with the participation of a tipsy lady.

Sheptalenko A., Sheptalenko V. Humorous stories about Stirlitz ("The Way of Victory", "The Way Home", "Hot Business", "Behind Bars").

Arkhipova A. "Stirlitz walked along the corridor ...": How we come up with anecdotes. - M .: RGGU, 2013 .-- 156 p. - (Tradition-text-folklore: typology and semiotics). - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-7281-1353-9.

Stirlitz in music

1993 - Arkady Ukupnik. The song "Ballad of Stirlitz" (lyrics by Kirill Krastoshevsky, music by Arkady Ukupnik). The title track of the album of the same name

1995 - Igor Malinin, cycle of songs-ditties "Stirlitz"

1997 - Konstantin Arbenin and the group "Winter Animals". Song "The Fate of the Resident" (album "Shoulders")

1999 - The Ivan-Kaif group. The song "Stirlitz"

2004 - Group "Lilies of the Valley". The song "Stirlitz".

Stirlitz in cinema

2008 - "Hitler Kaput!", A parody film, dir. Marius Weisberg

2001 - "The Eighteenth Moment of Spring", a parody film. Directed by Vasily Antonov, Alexander Tolokonnikov, as V. Antonov.

2014 - "Road without end", a parody film, directed and starring Marat Lutfrakhmanov.

Stirlitz in the theater

2014 - Stirlitz. Attempt to Escape ”, chamber musical.

Stirlitz in games

in computer games

Shtyrlitz: Operation BUST

Shtyrlitz 2: Tango in the Pampas - The game took 3rd place in the nomination "Best Russian Game of the Year" in TOP2000 on AG.RU

Shtyrlitz 3: Agent of the USSR

Shtyrlitz: Discovery of America

Shtyrlitz 4: The Matrix - A Step to Death

In the game "Rush for Berlin", at the end of the second mission for Germany, a neutral NPC character appears, named Otto von Stirlitz.

in games for mobile phones

Stirlitz 2: Umput forever

Stirlitz 3: Soviet Spy

Monument to Stirlitz

In 2011, sculptor Alexander Boyko announced the start of fundraising for the installation of a monument to Stirlitz in Vladivostok near the Versailles hotel, where he lived and, possibly, invented the image of the scout Julian Semyonov.

Prototypes

Semyonov in an interview with the Don magazine admitted that creating Stirlitz, he pushed off one of the first Soviet intelligence officers, whom Dzerzhinsky, Postyshev and Blucher sent to Vladivostok occupied by the Japanese. But he absorbed and melted in himself the best features of later famous Soviet intelligence officers, such as Kuznetsov, Sorge, Abel and others. As Semyonov himself described it:

“If the writer got to know them all well and through them deeply and fully felt his hero - he believed in him with all his being! - then, he, the hero, although fictional, collective, having absorbed the living soul and blood of the author, also becomes living, concrete, individual.

Julian Semyonov "

Below are other possible prototypes that, to one degree or another, influenced the creation of Stirlitz:

A possible prototype of the early Isaev - Yakov Grigorievich Blumkin (real name - Simkha-Yankev Gershevich Blumkin; pseudonyms: Isaev, Max, Vladimirov), (1900-1929) - Russian revolutionary, security officer, Soviet intelligence officer, terrorist and statesman. One of the founders of the Soviet intelligence services. In October 1921, under the pseudonym Isaev (taken by him after his grandfather), Blumkin went to Revel (Tallinn) under the guise of a jeweler and, acting as a provocateur, revealed the foreign connections of Gokhran workers. It was this episode in Blumkin's activity that Yulian Semyonov took as the basis for the plot of the book "Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."

Another possible prototype of Stirlitz is Willy Lehmann, SS Hauptsturmführer, employee of the IV department of the RSHA (Gestapo). The German, a passionate horse racing player, was recruited in 1936 by Soviet intelligence, an employee of which loaned him money after a loss, and then offered to supply secret information for a good fee (according to another version, Lehman independently went to Soviet intelligence, guided by ideological considerations). He bore the operational pseudonym "Breitenbach". In the RSHA, he was engaged in countering Soviet industrial espionage.

Lehman failed in 1942, under circumstances close to those described by Julian Semyonov: his radio operator Bart, an anti-fascist, during a surgery, under anesthesia, began to talk about codes and connections with Moscow, and the doctors signaled to the Gestapo. In December 1942, Lehman was arrested and shot several months later. The fact of the SS officer's betrayal was hidden - even Lehman's wife was informed that her husband was killed when hit by a train. The story of Willie Lehmann is told in the memoirs of Walter Schellenberg, from which Julian Semyonov apparently borrowed it.

According to the newspaper "Vesti", the prototype of Stirlitz was the Soviet intelligence officer Isai Isaevich Borovoy, who lived in Germany since the late 1920s, and later worked in Himmler's department. In 1944, he was arrested, after Stalin's death he was the main prosecution witness at the trial of Beria.

The likely prototype of Stirlitz could be Sergei Mikhalkov's brother, Mikhail Mikhalkov. Yulian Semyonov was married to Catherine, the daughter of Natalia Petrovna Konchalovskaya from her first marriage. Mikhail Mikhalkov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War served in the special department of the South-Western Front. In September 1941, he was captured, escaped and then continued to serve behind enemy lines as an illegal agent, supplying the intelligence agencies of the Red Army with important operational information. In 1945, during a battle in German uniform, he crossed the front line and was detained by the military counterintelligence bodies "SMERSH". On charges of collaborating with German intelligence, he served five years in prison, first in the Lefortovo prison, and later in one of the camps in the Far East. In 1956 he was rehabilitated. Perhaps (and most likely) Julian Semyonov drew part of Stirlitz's story from the family stories of Mikhail Mikhalkov.

Whose biographies formed the prototype of the most beloved Soviet intelligence officer

Elusive Stirlitz ( Maxim Maksimovich Isaev) is the most adored by the people of the intelligence officer in Soviet and post-Soviet culture. None of these characters have even come close to his fame. Everyone who has watched a movie at least once Tatiana Lioznova "Seventeen Moments of Spring", the question arose: was there Stirlitz? And if so, how was his fate?

Who are you, Maxim Maksimych?

A consensus on who could serve as the prototype for the famous Standartenführer Juliana Semyonova, the author of the epic about Stirlitz, still does not exist. In the late 60s, the writer was given an honorable assignment: to write an ideologically inspiring work about the feat of a Soviet intelligence officer.

In order for the plot to correspond to reality as much as possible, by personal order Yuri Andropov (at that time the chairman of the KGB) the writer was allowed to enter the holy of holies, he was allowed to see the documents, which, as they say, must be burned before reading. Thus, in the biography of Stirlitz, facts from the life of several Soviet residents were intertwined.

Or spy or champion

Stirlitz is known to have been the Berlin tennis champion. Among Soviet intelligence officers, only one professionally owned a racket, and also played great football -. But it is simply impossible to be a spy and at the same time a real champion in any kind of sport - an athlete needs constant training, and the best among them are always under the scrutiny of various organizations, the press and just the curious.

For Alexander, the path to reconnaissance began precisely from the tennis court, where he was noticed by representatives of the domestic special services. Soon, on the recommendation, he came to work at the Lubyanka. He started his journey in a very unusual way - as a lifter, and only then “went upstairs”.

At first there was a boring job as a clerk in a foreign department. But the guy liked him and was sent for individual training: he learned to wield several types of weapons, perfectly studied the German language, graduated from courses on driving a car and after a few years was sent abroad.

Korotkov headed a group created to eliminate traitors to the Motherland and worked in France. Already at the end of the 30s, his name was well known to those who were supposed to. But before the onset of a new year, 1939, Korotkov, along with several colleagues, was obliged to report to Beria, who informed the agents that their services were no longer needed.

Korotkov was furious. He decided on an unprecedented: wrote Lavrenty Pavlovich a letter where he dared, without unnecessary "curtsey" to demand that he be reinstated at work. To the general amazement, no tragic consequences happened: on the contrary, Korotkov was returned and sent to serve in Berlin.

There is a version that it was he who first transferred Germany to the USSR back in March 1941. In the early 40s, under close supervision, Korotkov managed to establish contact with the underground group "Red Capella" and sent their valuable information to the USSR and the Allied countries.

Good man in a hat

Another prototype of Stirlitz is considered to be a scout who worked under the pseudonym Breitenbach... It was he who, on June 19, 1941, transmitted to the USSR information that in three days Germany would attack the Soviet Union. This was, at one time, he himself expressed a desire to work for Soviet intelligence - he categorically did not share the fascist ideology. Like Stirlitz, Lehmann was an officer of the Gestapo, an SS Hauptsturmfuehrer, and of all the intelligence officers he held a position most similar to the one that Julian Semyonov prepared for his Stirlitz.

But Lehman certainly outwardly was strikingly different from the handsome Tikhonov. The bald little kind man with poor health did not arouse suspicion in anyone; it was impossible to think that he was an enemy agent.

Meanwhile, the information he passed on was valuable: it concerned the production of self-propelled guns, the development of chemical weapons and the latest types of fuel, as well as changes in the personnel of the German special services and secret plans of the Gestapo.

Lehman sewed his reports into the lining of his hat. Exactly the same had another Soviet agent with whom Lehman met in a cafe. There was an imperceptible exchange of hats, and the thing, as they say, is in the hat.

When Lehman was exposed in 1942, the top of the SS was in shock: for 13 years they had been led by a Soviet agent! Lehman was hastily shot by order Himmler, and his case was urgently destroyed, before it came to the Fuhrer. Lehman's family learned about the true reasons for his death only after the end of the war.

Rich heir

Another prototype of Stirlitz is. Having fought for the Spanish republicans in the mid-30s, he returned to Moscow and received an offer to become an intelligence officer. His specialization was encrypted radio communications.

Gurevich got down to business in Brussels, where he received a pseudonym Vincent Sierra... Then he became a member of the famous "Red Capella", where he acquired the call sign Kent... While working in Brussels, Anatoly married the daughter of a local wealthy industrialist and, probably the only real Soviet people, became a wealthy heir to "unearned income."

It was thanks to the information transmitted by Gurevich that the Red Army was able to win several important victories in the fall of 1941. But almost at the same time, Gurevich was overtaken by an evil fate: his transmitter was tracked, the codes were hacked, and the German counterintelligence connected to the radio game. The scout and his wife managed to escape to France, but they were soon arrested. Only then Margaret learned that her husband was a Soviet spy. The lady was not at all happy about it.

Miraculously, the couple managed to survive, but their marriage was doomed. When the war ended, Anatoly parted with his wife and returned to Russia. Here, prison again awaited him - the leaders of Soviet intelligence were not going to stand on ceremony with the failed agent. Gurevich was "weighed" for 25 years for treason, but still he was released a little earlier, in 1960. All charges against the intelligence officer were dropped only after 30 years, and Gurevich himself lived to be 96 years old and died in Moscow in 2009.

Yulian Semyonov himself has repeatedly said that one of the main prototypes of Stirlitz was, whom the writer knew personally. Norman's father, Mikhail Borodin - associate Lenin - he was a Soviet intelligence agent himself, worked in a diplomatic mission in China, served as an adviser to the then Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen... When Sun Yat-sen died, it became very dangerous to remain in the East. Soviet diplomats managed to take Borodin out of the country, and his son, 16-year-old Norman, was transported to the USSR as part of a ballet troupe Isadora Duncan, who was touring in China at the time. The young handsome man was dressed up as a girl.

Norman spoke English like a native. Already at the age of 19, he worked in the foreign department of the NKVD, and the first task was entrusted to him when the guy turned 25: he went to the United States as an illegal resident, having received a pseudonym Granite... Despite this nickname, the agent's position was extremely vulnerable: he could not even count on the help of the Soviet embassy. After the betrayal of one of his colleagues, Borodin was urgently recalled from the States, but upon returning to Moscow he was fired from intelligence. He managed to return only with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

He was sent to Berlin, where he built a reliable network. At the same time, under the guise of a volunteer, Norman worked in the Swiss branch of the Red Cross.

After returning to Moscow, Borodin became a correspondent, and in vain! He was completely disillusioned with Soviet reality. The former spy even wrote to Stalin: does the great leader know what is going on around him? The “answer” was the arrest of his father, who could not bear the torture and died in prison.

Then it was the son's turn. But Borodin Jr. was lucky: he was exiled to Karaganda. There he met Yulian Semyonov and brothers Weiners... After hearing the incredible life story of Borodin, Semenov asked permission to use part of Norman's biography in a new novel about Stirlitz.

Some time after Stalin's death, Borodin was able to return to Moscow, all charges against him were dropped, he again worked in the KGB. Borodin took an active part in the work on the film "Seventeen Moments of Spring" as a consultant. But the credits indicate his fictitious name: Andropov ordered to classify.

From tragedy to anecdote

Some researchers also consider the prototypes of Stirlitz Mikhail Mikhalkov, brother of a famous writer, as well as a young employee of the Cheka Yakov Blumkina, whose activities in Soviet intelligence also ended in arrests, and in the case of Blumkin, execution.

Stirlitz's prototype is often mentioned Richard Sorge, who became the Soviet intelligence agent number 1. But a detailed study of his biography casts doubt on this version, there are practically no coincidences in the biographies of the present and literary intelligence officers, except that they both worked in Shanghai for some time.

The invented Stirlitz with recognition of merit was a little more fortunate than real scouts. There is a legend that Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, being a big fan of the film about Stirlitz, once asked if Isaev had been given a Hero. Having received no answer to the question, Brezhnev ordered that this be done immediately.

Stirlitz Max Otto von (German: Max Otto von Stierlitz; aka Maksim Maksimovich Isaev, real name Vsevolod Vladimovich Vladimirov) - a literary character, the hero of many works of the Russian Soviet writer Yulian Semyonov, an SS standartenfuehrer, a Soviet intelligence officer who worked in the interests of the USSR and other countries of Nazi Germany ... Tatiana Lioznova's TV serial "Seventeen Moments of Spring" based on the novel of the same name, where he was played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov, brought all-Union fame to the image of Stirlitz. This character has become the most famous image of a spy in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, comparable to James Bond in Western culture.

Biography

Contrary to popular belief, Stirlitz's real name is not Maxim Maksimovich Isaev, as one might assume from "Seventeen Moments of Spring", but Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov. The surname "Isaev" is presented by Yulian Semyonov as the operational pseudonym of Vsevolod Vladimirov already in the first novel about him "Diamonds for the dictatorship of the proletariat."

Isaev-Shtirlits - Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov - was born on October 8, 1900 ("Expansion-2") in Transbaikalia, where his parents were in political exile.

Parents:

Father - Russian Vladimir Alexandrovich Vladimirov, "professor of law at St. Petersburg University, dismissed for free thinking and closeness to the circles of social democracy." Involved in the revolutionary movement by Georgy Plekhanov.
Mother - Ukrainian Olesya Ostapovna Prokopchuk (died of consumption when her son was five years old).

The parents met and got married in exile. After the end of the exile, the father and son returned to St. Petersburg, and then spent some time in exile in Switzerland (Zurich and Bern). Here Vsevolod showed love for literary work. In Bern, he worked part-time in a newspaper. Father and son returned to their homeland in 1917. It is known that in 1911 the paths of Vladimirov Sr. and the Bolsheviks diverged. After the revolution, in 1921 - while his son was in Estonia, Vladimir Vladimirov was sent on a business trip to Eastern Siberia and died there tragically.

Relatives on the mother's side:

Grandfather - Ostap Nikitovich Prokopchuk, a Ukrainian revolutionary democrat, also exiled to Trans-Baikal exile with his children Olesya and Taras. After exile he returned to Ukraine, and from there to Krakow. He died in 1915.
Uncle - Taras Ostapovich Prokopchuk. In Krakow he married Wanda Krushanskaya. In 1918 he was shot.
Cousin - Ganna Tarasovna Prokopchuk. Two children. Professional activity: architect. In 1941, her whole family was killed in Nazi concentration camps. ("Third Card").

In 1920, Vsevolod Vladimirov worked under the name of captain Maxim Maksimovich Isaev in the press service of the Kolchak government.

In 1921 he was already in Moscow, "working for Dzerzhinsky" as deputy head of the foreign department of the Cheka Gleb Bokiy. From here Vsevolod is sent to Estonia ("Diamonds for the dictatorship of the proletariat").

In 1922, a young Chekist underground worker Vsevolod Vladimirov, on behalf of the leadership, was evacuated with white troops from Vladivostok to Manchuria ("No password needed", "Tenderness"). Over the next 30 years, he was constantly in overseas work.

Meanwhile, in his homeland, he has his only love for life and a son, born in 1923. His son's name was Alexander (operational pseudonym in the intelligence of the Red Army, Kolya Grishanchikov), his mother was Alexandra Nikolaevna Gavrilina (Major Whirlwind). Stirlitz first learned about his son in 1941 from an employee of the Soviet trade mission in Tokyo, where he went to meet with Richard Sorge. In the fall of 1944, Standartenführer Stirlitz accidentally meets his son in Krakow - he is here as part of a reconnaissance and sabotage group (Major Whirlwind).

In connection with the strengthening of the Nazi party and the aggravation of the danger of Hitler's coming to power in Germany in 1927, it was decided to send Maxim Isaev from the Far East to Europe. For this, the legend was created about Max Otto von Stirlitz, a German aristocrat who was robbed in Shanghai, seeking protection at the German consulate in Sydney. In Australia, Stirlitz worked for some time in a hotel with a German owner associated with the NSDAP, after which he was transferred to New York.

From the party characteristics of a member of the NSDAP since 1933, von Stirlitz, Standartenfuehrer SS (VI Department of the RSHA): “A true Aryan. Character - Nordic, self-possessed. He maintains good relations with workmates. Performs his official duty impeccably. Merciless to the enemies of the Reich. Excellent athlete: Berlin tennis champion. Single; he was not seen in connections discrediting him. Awarded with the Fuehrer's awards and thanks from the Reichsfuehrer SS ... "

During the Second World War, Stirlitz was an employee of the VI Department of the RSHA, headed by SS Brigadefuehrer Walter Schellenberg. In his operational work at the RSHA he used the pseudonyms "Brunn" and "Bolsen".

The head of the 4th department of the RSHA was SS Gruppenfuehrer Heinrich Müller, who “caught Stirlitz all the time, which he did in April 1945, but the coincidence of circumstances and the chaos that took place during the storming of Berlin thwarted Müller's plans to use Stirlitz in a game against the Red Army command. At the end of the war, Comrade Stalin entrusted Stirlitz with an important task: to disrupt the separate negotiations between the Germans and the West. Beginning in the summer of 1943, Himmler, through his proxies, began to maintain contacts with representatives of the Western special services in order to conclude a separate peace. Thanks to the courage and intelligence of Stirlitz, these negotiations were thwarted.

Of the Americans who negotiated behind the scenes with the leaders of the Third Reich, Semyonov points to Allen Dulles, who headed the American headquarters in Bern, Switzerland.

Stirlitz's favorite drink is cognac, cigarettes - "Karo". He drives a Horch car. Unlike James Bond, Stirlitz treats women in cold blood. To the calls of prostitutes, he usually replies: "No, better coffee." Speech characteristic, repeated from work to work: phrases often end with the question "No?"

Before the end of the war, Stirlitz was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After the end of the war, Stirlitz in an unconscious state (wounded by a Soviet soldier) was taken by the Germans to Spain, from where he went to South America. There he reveals a conspiratorial network of fascists who fled from Germany.

During and after the war, he worked under several pseudonyms: Bolsen, Brunn, etc. As a name, he usually used variations of the name "Maxim": Max, Massimo.

In Argentina and Brazil, he works with the American Paul Rouman. Here they uncover the conspiratorial Nazi organization "ODESSA", which is led by Heinrich Müller. Together with Paul Rowman, they identify the agent network and capture Heinrich Müller. Realizing that after Churchill's speech in Fulton and Hoover's "witch hunt" Mueller can escape punishment for his crimes, they decide to extradite him to the Soviet government. Stirlitz goes to the Soviet embassy, \u200b\u200bwhere he reports who he is, as well as information about the whereabouts of Mueller. MGB officers carry out the arrest of Stirlitz and are transported by boat to the USSR. In 1947 on a Soviet motor ship arrives at

Max Otto von Stierlitz (German: Max Otto von Stierlitz; aka Maxim Maksimovich Isaev, real name Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov) is a literary character, the hero of many works of the Russian Soviet writer Julian Semyonov, an SS standartenfuehrer, a Soviet intelligence officer who worked in the interests of the USSR in Nazi Germany and some other countries.

A source: literary works by Julian Semyonov, TV movie “Seventeen Moments of Spring”.

The role was played by: Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Tatiana Lioznova's TV serial "Seventeen Moments of Spring" based on the novel of the same name, where he was played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov, brought all-Union fame to the image of Stirlitz. This character has become the most famous image of a spy in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, comparable to James Bond in Western culture.

Biography

Maxim Maksimovich Isaev - Stirlitz - Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov - was born on October 8, 1900 ("Expansion-2") in Transbaikalia, where his parents were in political exile.

Parents:
Father - Russian, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Vladimirov, "professor of law at St. Petersburg University, dismissed for free thinking and closeness to the circles of social democracy." Involved in the revolutionary movement by Georgy Plekhanov.

Mother - Ukrainian, Olesya Ostapovna Prokopchuk, died of consumption when her son was five years old.

The parents met and got married in exile. After the end of the exile, father and son returned to St. Petersburg, and then spent some time in exile, in Switzerland, in the cities of Zurich and Bern. Here Vsevolod Vladimirovich showed a love for literary work. In Bern, he worked part-time in a newspaper. Father and son returned to their homeland in 1917. It is known that in 1911 the paths of Vladimirov the elder and the Bolsheviks parted. After the revolution, in 1921 - while his son was in Estonia - Vladimir Vladimirov was sent on a business trip to Eastern Siberia and there tragically died at the hands of White bandits.

Relatives on the mother's side:

Uncle - Taras Ostapovich Prokopchuk. In Krakow he married Wanda Krushanskaya. In 1918 he was shot.

Cousin - Ganna Tarasovna Prokopchuk. Two children. Professional activity: architect. In 1941, her entire family died in Nazi concentration camps ("The Third Card"). She died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

In 1920, Vsevolod Vladimirov worked under the name of captain Maxim Maksimovich Isaev in the press service of the Kolchak government.

In May 1921, the bands of Baron Ungern, having seized power in Mongolia, tried to strike at Soviet Russia. Vsevolod Vladimirov, disguised as a White Guard captain, infiltrated Ungern's headquarters and handed over the enemy's military-strategic plans to his command.

Meanwhile, in his homeland, he still has his only love for life and a son, born in 1923. The son's name was Alexander (the operational pseudonym in the intelligence of the Red Army - Kolya Grishanchikov), his mother - Alexandra Nikolaevna Gavrilina ("Major Whirlwind"). Stirlitz first learned about his son in 1941 from an employee of the Soviet trade mission in Tokyo, where he went to meet with Richard Sorge. In the fall of 1944, SS Standartenfuehrer von Stirlitz accidentally meets his son in Krakow - he is here as part of a reconnaissance and sabotage group (Major Whirlwind).

From 1924 to 1927, Vsevolod Vladimirov lives in Shanghai.

During World War II, Stirlitz was an employee of the VI Department of the RSHA, which was headed by SS Brigadefuehrer Walter Schellenberg. In his operational work at the RSHA he used the pseudonyms "Brunn" and "Bolsen". In 1938 he worked in Spain ("Spanish version"), in March-April 1941 - as part of the group of Edmund Weesenmaier in Yugoslavia ("Alternative"), and in June - in Poland and in the occupied territory of Ukraine, where he communicated with Theodore Oberlander, Stepan Bandera and Andrey Melnik ("The Third Card").

In 1943, he visited Stalingrad, where he demonstrated exceptional courage under Soviet shelling.

Of the Americans who negotiated behind the scenes with the leaders of the Third Reich, Yulian Semyonov points to Allen Dulles, who headed the American headquarters in Bern, the Swiss capital.

The head of the 4th department of the RSHA was SS Gruppenfuehrer Heinrich Müller, who exposed Stirlitz in April 1945, but the coincidence of circumstances and the chaos that occurred during the storming of Berlin thwarted Müller's plans to use Stirlitz in a game against the Red Army command ("Ordered to survive").

Stirlitz's favorite drink is Armenian cognac, his favorite cigarettes are Karo. He drives a Horch car. Unlike James Bond, Stirlitz treats women in cold blood. To the calls of prostitutes, he usually replies: "No, better coffee." Speech characteristic, repeated from work to work: phrases often end with the question "No?" or "Isn't it?"

During and after the Second World War he worked under several pseudonyms: Bolsen, Brunn and others. As a name, I usually used variations of the name "Maxim": Max, Massimo ("Expansion").

In Argentina and Brazil, Stirlitz works with the American Paul Rouman. Here they identify the conspiratorial Nazi organization "ODESSA", which is led by Müller, and then carry out the identification of the agent network and the capture of Müller. Realizing that after Winston Churchill's speech in Fulton and Hoover's "witch hunt" Mueller could escape punishment for his crimes, they decide to extradite him to the Soviet government. Stirlitz goes to the Soviet embassy, \u200b\u200bwhere he reports who he is, as well as information about Mueller's whereabouts. MGB officers carry out the arrest of Stirlitz and are transported by boat to the USSR. Isaev goes to prison (Despair). There he meets Raoul Wallenberg and plays his own game. Meanwhile, his son and wife are being shot at Stalin's orders. After the death of Beria, Stirlitz is released.

A month after being awarded the Golden Star, he began to work at the Institute of History on the topic “National Socialism, Neo-Fascism; modifications of totalitarianism ". After reviewing the text of the thesis, the secretary of the Central Committee Mikhail Suslov recommended conferring on comrade Vladimirov an academic degree of doctor of sciences without defense, and withdrawing the manuscript, transferring it to the special storage ...

Once again, he will meet with his old acquaintances from the RSHA, former Nazis, in West Berlin in 1967 ("Bomb for the Chairman"). This time, aged, but not losing his grip, Isaev managed to prevent the theft of nuclear technologies by a private corporation and collide with a radical sect from Southeast Asia ...

Jokes

Stirlitz is a character in one of the largest cycles of Soviet anecdotes, usually they parody the voice of the narrator, constantly commenting on Stirlitz's thoughts or the events of the film. In the series "Seventeen Moments of Spring" it was the voice of the BDT actor Yefim Kopelyan.

Interesting Facts

In reality, the German surname Sti (e) rlitz does not exist; the closest similar is Stieglitz (Carduelis carduelis), also known in Russia. Also during the Second World War in the Third Reich was Vice Admiral Ernst Schirlitz - the commander of the German fleet in the Atlantic.

As an impostor, Stirlitz really could not have served in the SS in such a high position, since the Nazi security services checked the identity of each candidate for several generations. To pass such a check, Stirlitz had not only to have genuine identity documents, but to replace the real German Max Stirlitz, who really lived in Germany and looked like him. Although such substitutions are practiced by the special services when introducing illegal agents, in reality, all sources of Soviet intelligence in the higher echelons of the Reich, which are now known, were recruited by Germans or German anti-fascists.

Stirlitz graduated from the university, majored in quantum mechanics. This was also easy to verify. Quantum mechanics was a relatively young science at that time. The scientists involved were well known.

Stirlitz is the Berlin tennis champion. This fact is also easy to verify. This untruth would have been immediately revealed, but Stirlitz-Isaev certainly became the champion, without deception. He had time for this.

Stirlitz is addressed as "Stirlitz", not "von Stirlitz." In principle, such an appeal is allowed, especially in cases where the bearer of the surname does not have a noble title (count, baron and others). But in those years in Germany there was less of such "democracy", the more strange it is to hear an appeal without a "background" from subordinates.

Stirlitz smokes, which is contrary to the anti-smoking policy in the Third Reich. In 1939, the NSDAP banned smoking in all its institutions, and Heinrich Himmler banned SS and police officers from smoking during working hours.

Stirlitz's favorite pub is Rough Gottlieb. In it, he dined with Pastor Schlag, rested with a glass of beer, after breaking away from the "tail" of Muller's agents. The famous Berlin restaurant “Zur letzten Instanz” (Last resort) was filmed in the “role” of this pub.

Prototypes

It is traditionally believed that the Soviet intelligence agent Richard Sorge became one of the prototypes of Stierlitz, but there are no facts of biographical coincidences between Stierlitz and Sorge.

Another possible prototype of Stirlitz is Willy Lehmann, SS Hauptsturmführer, employee of the IV department of the RSHA (Gestapo). The German, a passionate horse racing player, was recruited in 1936 by Soviet intelligence, an employee of which loaned him money after losing, and then offered to supply secret information for a good fee (according to another version, Willie Lehmann independently went to Soviet intelligence, guided by ideological considerations). He bore the operational pseudonym "Breitenbach". In the RSHA, he was engaged in countering Soviet industrial espionage.

Willie Lehman failed in 1942, under circumstances similar to those described by Julian Semyonov: his radio operator Bart, an anti-fascist, during a surgery, under anesthesia, began to talk about codes and connections with Moscow, and the doctors signaled to the Gestapo. In December 1942, Willie Lehman was arrested and shot several months later. The fact of the betrayal of such a high-ranking SS officer was hidden - even Willie Lehman's wife was informed that her husband had died after being hit by a train. The story of Willie Lehmann is told in the memoirs of Walter Schellenberg, from which Julian Semyonov apparently borrowed it.

A very likely prototype of Stirlitz could be Sergei Mikhalkov's brother, Mikhail Mikhalkov. Yulian Semyonov was married to Catherine, the daughter of Natalia Petrovna Konchalovskaya from her first marriage. Here are the facts of the biography of Mikhail Mikhalkov: at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he served in a special department of the South-Western Front. In September 1941, he was captured, escaped, and then continued to serve behind enemy lines as an illegal agent, supplying the intelligence agencies of the Red Army with important operational information. In 1945, during a battle in German uniform, he crossed the front line and was detained by the military counterintelligence bodies "SMERSH". On charges of cooperation with German intelligence, he served five years in prison, first in the Lefortovo prison, and later in one of the camps in the Far East. In 1956 he was rehabilitated. Perhaps (and most likely) Julian Semyonov drew part of Stirlitz's story from the family stories of Mikhail Mikhalkov.

Film incarnations

In addition to Vyacheslav Tikhonov, who, of course, is the main "film face" of Stirlitz, other actors played this character. In total, five novels were filmed, where Stirlitz or Maxim Maksimovich Isaev acts. The role of Stirlitz in these films was performed by:

Rodion Nakhapetov ("No password needed", 1967)
Vladimir Ivashov (Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, 1975)
Uldis Dumpis ("Spanish version") (in the film the hero's name is Walter Schulz)
Vsevolod Safonov ("The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce")
Daniil Strakhov (Isaev, 2009 - TV adaptation of the novels Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, No Password Needed, and the story Tenderness).

Quotes from the movie "Seventeen Moments of Spring"

Don't trust someone who scares you about bad weather in Switzerland. It is very sunny and warm here.

... Have I ever given anyone a thrash? I am an old, kind person who gives up.

-… you have no cognac.
- I have cognac.
- So you don't have salami.
- I have salami.
- So, we eat from the same feeder.

And you, Stirlitz, I will ask you to stay.

I am Einstein in love!

Truly: if you smoke American cigarettes, they will say that you have sold your homeland.

- What products do you prefer - our production, or ...
- Or. It may not be patriotic, but I prefer products made in America or France.

- You got the wrong number, buddy. You have the wrong number.

“You know too much. You will be buried with honors after a car accident.

- If you get hit (in war, as in war), you must destroy the letter before unfastening the straps of your parachute.
- I will not be able to do this, as I will be dragged along the ground. But the first thing I will do, unbuckling my parachute, is to destroy the letter.

- Small lies give rise to great distrust.

- Don't you complain about memory?
- I drink iodine.
- And I - vodka.
- Where can I get money for vodka?
- Take bribes.

“He'll wake up in exactly twenty minutes.

- Now you can't trust anyone. Even myself. I can.

- A strange property of my physiognomy: it seems to everyone that they saw me somewhere.

- Do you have canned fish? I'm going crazy without fish. Phosphorus, you know, is required by nerve cells.
- Which production do you prefer, ours or ...
- Or. It may be unpatriotic, but I prefer products made in America or France.

- Do your kidneys hurt?
- No.
- Very sorry.

- Heil, Hitler!
- Come on. My ears are ringing.

- A good adjutant is like a hunting dog. It is indispensable for hunting, and if the exterior is good, other hunters envy.

- What two know, the pig knows.

- I will play the Karakan defense, only you, please, do not bother me.

- I know your testimony! I read them, listened to them on tape. And they suited me - until this morning. And since this morning they have ceased to suit me.

- I love the silent. If this is a friend, then a friend. If it is the enemy, then the enemy.

- I asked you to deliver me new Swiss blades. Where? Where ... Who did the check?

- I'll be right there, go write me a couple of formulas.
- Swear!
- So that I'm dead.

- Clarity is one of the forms of complete fog.