The book by Irina Nevzlina paints us a portrait of the famous oligarch Leonid Nevzlin through the eyes of his mother. This is no doubt interesting. But in the text of the book there are many insertions on behalf of the “characters”. As a result, what we have before us is not an ordinary biography of a famous person (perhaps a notorious one?), but a slice of time. A difficult time, a time of turning around the destinies of people and the fate of the country. A time that no one thinks of regretting now, but - give it time - they will regret it.