Journalist Pavel Voshchanov met and became close to Boris Yeltsin in early 1988, when the ex-head of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU was exiled to “hardware re-education” at the USSR State Construction Committee. A year later, when the future first president of Russia went into big politics, Voshchanov began acting as Yeltsin’s press secretary; During the August 1991 putsch, it was Voshchanov who held press conferences within the White House. In February 1992, due to growing personal disagreements with Yeltsin, Pavel Voshchanov resigned. In his book, he provides incredible details of the fantastic rise of Boris Yeltsin, talks about those people in Russia and abroad who supported the initially disgraced politician and helped him rise, talks about the reasons for Yeltsin's growing influence and his eventual victory in 1991. Voschanov’s book is truly unique, because he, as the president’s press secretary, knew a lot of things that were unknown to others.