He went down in history under the honorary nickname “Iron Chancellor”. A battleship, the flagship of the German fleet, and an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean were named after him. The unifier of the German lands, the founding father of the Second Reich, he was a real genius of power, worthy to stand on a par with such titans as Peter the Great, Napoleon, Stalin, Churchill. Having lived in St. Petersburg as a Prussian envoy for about three years, Otto Von Bismarck spoke passable Russian, wore a ring engraved with the Russian word “nothing” (which he considered “beyond his understanding”) and warned his compatriots against enmity with Russia: “Never fight with the Russians. They will respond to your every military trick with unpredictable stupidity"; “Russians take a long time to harness, but drive quickly”; “Don’t expect that once you take advantage of Russia’s weakness, you will receive dividends forever. The Russians always come for their money. And when this happens, don’t count on the Jesuit agreements you signed that supposedly justify you. They are not worth the paper they are written on. Therefore, you must either play fairly with the Russians, or not play at all..." This book - undoubtedly the best Russian biography of Bismarck - for the first time allows you to look at the "Iron Chancellor" not only as a great politician, but also as a living person with all human weaknesses, addictions and shortcomings.