The book by the famous St. Petersburg journalist Elena Prudnikova is an attempt to write a biography of Stalin the man, to give a psychological portrait of the leader of nations. The originality of the approach is that the author completely departs from the generally accepted interpretation of Stalin as a cold, calculating, far-sighted and cruel man, viewing him from a completely opposite point of view. The hero of the book is a poet who invested his colossal creative potential in the matter of public administration, a statesman for whom his country was above all, and a man in whose personality there were no pathologies.