Before you is the first experience in post-Soviet times of recreating the portrait of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev through memoirs. The genre of this book is difficult to determine. It attempts, firstly, to bring together the source material: memories, reflections, testimonies, judgments about Brezhnev of active participants in the political events of the 50-80s, who were part of his immediate and distant circle; secondly, to present this material in such a way that the reader himself, without the help of modern commentators and interpreters of history, can draw his own portrait of L. I. Brezhnev - a person, a politician, a historical figure.