Who will get Russia after Yeltsin? Luzhkov, Chernomyrdin, Lebed, Zyuganov, Chubais, Nemtsov or a completely different chosen one, whose name is still unknown? Literally from the first days of B. Yeltsin’s inauguration for a second presidential term, a brutal, secret and open war unfolded for the right to be his successor. The book by the head of one of the Moscow analytical services, General V. A. Guseinov, tells about the invisible battles for power in the Kremlin that unfolded with 1996. False forecasts and falsifications, financial scandals and leakage of “confidential information” are used.