Sergei Filatov is one of the key figures in Russian politics of the last decade. From the beginning of the 90s, he worked in the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, headed the Presidential Administration for three years, and then headed the public movement to support Boris Yeltsin in the presidential elections in 1996. Analyzing events in the country during the most difficult periods - coups, referendums, the war in Chechnya, observing the vicissitudes of the struggle for power, the author, not without bitterness, writes about the atmosphere of intrigue in the Kremlin corridors of power, introduces the reader to the multifaceted, contradictory and not always unflattering portraits of the most significant government figures, and above all B. Yeltsin