About the book: 2020 / A fictional and journalistic narrative by former diplomat and ex-ambassador E.A. Shmagin immerses himself in the history of the bizarre intertwining of human destinies of Russians and Germans against the backdrop of significant events in Russian-German relations. The story begins on Bloody Sunday in 1905 and unfolds over the course of a century in the city of Ostashkov on Lake Seliger and Moscow, Bonn and Berlin. Among other things, the reader discovers the everyday life of Soviet and Russian diplomacy with its funny and dramatic stories.