A well-known writer and author of publications on political topics, for many years she collected materials about Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the YUKOS case. As a result, she managed to write the most detailed history of Khodorkovsky to date - this is not only a biography of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a story about two trials in the Meshchansky and Khamovnichesky courts, but also an analysis of other charges related to YUKOS, as well as debunking numerous myths and misconceptions about YUKOS and Khodorkovsky .The book is based on interviews taken by the author with Marina Filippovna Khodorkovskaya, Leonid Nevzlin, Vasily Shakhnovsky, Alexey Kondaurov, Irina Yasina, Anatoly Ermolin, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's lawyers Karinna Moskalenko and Natalya Terekhova, Khodorkovsky's classmates and classmates, trial materials, media publications since 1990 year, as well as the author’s personal correspondence with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which began in 2005, and Khodorkovsky’s comments on the text.