Vladimir Petrovsky has dedicated to diplomatic service 45 years of his life. First Deputy Foreign Minister of the USSR, Representative of Russia to the NATO Council of Cooperation, Under-Secretary-General, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, – the list of his achievements in the latter years of his service goes on and on.

Naturally, a major and prominent part of the book is a collection of
1) Vladimir Petrovsky's reports delivered at international symposiums in Geneva, Moscow and Paris;
2) texts of his lectures read at universities in front of future diplomats;
3) extracts from international documents and charters to which he contributed directly.

To whom can we recommend this book?

To those who are drafting their own resolutions for international events (for example, "Dialogue on the Volga").

Here, one can quote Vladimir Petrovsky by whole paragraphs, as the areas of his interest include disarmament, peaceful coexistence, international cooperation, trust and mutual understanding between nations… Unfortunately, it also means that the issues he raised in his works remain unresolved until now. Or, more optimistically, that eternal ideals never lose their relevance…

To those who take interest to the work of the United Nations Organization, but cannot bring themselves to read the whole series of its resolutions.
Here, in this book, you will find the recollections of the man who had been drafting these resolutions himself, who worked in both if the UN's headquarters (in New York and Geneva), and knew its work from the inside.

To those who want to know about diplomatic service from the inside out.
Some of the lectured mentioned is a collection of life hacks: clever ways to move negotiations from the sticking point, the legitimate methods of manipulating your interlocutor and some other extracts of "The Art of War" for negotiators.

You might also want to know that one of the streets in the Sovetsky District of Volgograd – the one going vertically up from the Universitetsky Avenue and the "Aquarelle" Mall – is named after Vladimir Petrovsky.