The first complete biography in Russian of Josip Broz Tito, the founder and long-term leader of socialist Yugoslavia, the most famous and at the same time the most mysterious world politician. Few of the greatest statesmen left behind as many legends, myths and secrets as he did. A partisan with monarchical powers, an underground communist who amazed even billionaires with his sybaritic habits, a fighter against Stalinism who arrested his own wife - Stalin himself could have envied his cult of personality. All these paradoxes were amazingly combined in this man, and all the mysteries of his biography still cause heated discussions all over the world. The further into the past Tito's era goes, the more his name becomes surrounded by legends and myths. Evgeny Matonin's book, based on documentary materials and testimonies of Tito's close associates, carefully restores the true, not legendary, biography of this controversial but extremely colorful politician and person.