It is 20 years since one of the most terrible tragedies in the modern history of Russia. 20 years ago the “White House” was shot... Over the past years, entire libraries have been written about the bloody October of 1993. Heated debates about the origins and causes of the tragedy have not subsided to this day. The people who stood on opposite sides of the barricades are still settling scores - those who defended the White House and those who shot it. They remember, curse, make excuses, dissemble, talk about one thing, deliberately keep silent about another... In this discord of mutually exclusive assessments and opinions, the main questions are drowned: whose side was the truth on then? Who brought Russia to the brink of a new civil war? Could the bloodshed have been avoided? This book is the second edition of the first historical study of the 1993 tragedy. Having studied all available materials, double-checking the testimony of participants and eyewitnesses, the author not only reconstructs the course of events in detail, hourly and minute by hour, but also gives a deep analysis of the causes of the tragedy, reveals the secret springs of fatal decisions and comes to sensational conclusions...