In the issue of the Pravda newspaper for June 22, 1941, there is not a word about Hitler’s attack on the USSR (they simply didn’t have time to print it), but there is a note about the opening “for scientific purposes” of Tamerlane’s tomb. The chronicle of these excavations has also been preserved - even today it’s creepy when you see Timur’s skull taken out of the grave: as if Death itself looked at the world with empty holes in its eye sockets... Did Stalin know the ancient prophecy that as soon as the remains of the greatest conqueror were disturbed, the most terrible war from the beginning would begin times? Who was he, this Iron Lame, who was called the Conqueror of the World and the Shaker of the Universe? Is it only the genius of war – or also the GENIUS OF POWER? A merciless destroyer who ravaged hundreds of cities and destroyed millions of lives, or a great creator who created a colossal Islamic empire that stretched from Delhi to the Aegean Sea and from Damascus to China? The devil in the flesh, who drowned half of Eurasia in blood, or the architect of the Timurid Renaissance, this pearl of Muslim civilization? And by what miracle Rus' escaped the invasion of Tamerlane, about whom our chronicles say: “Velmi is merciless and extremely unmerciful, and a cruel tormentor, and an angry persecutor, and a cruel tormentor...” This book pays tribute to the brilliant commander and ruler, who left behind a memory comparable only with the glory of Genghis Khan!