In his book, the famous historian Alexander Chernyak shows Boris Yeltsin’s path to power and his years in the Kremlin. All this time, continuous intrigues were woven around Yeltsin, in which not only his enemies participated, but also people from his inner circle, ranging from “reformers in the ranks of the CPSU” to the notorious “family”; The first president of Russia was also greatly influenced by his foreign “friends.” The clash of different interests was so strong that Yeltsin often changed his newly made decisions to the exact opposite. Early resignations of leaders in the ruling cabinet became the norm in the Yeltsin era, and sometimes this ended in the death of people disliked by Yeltsin's next favorites. Chernyak wrote his book over many years, collecting bits and pieces of materials from closed Kremlin sources, interviewing witnesses, comparing facts, etc. .