The medical history of the first Russian President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin has always remained one of the most terrible secrets of the Russian government. On the eve of the 1996 elections, the opposition was ready to shell out $5 million for it. But only now does society finally have the opportunity to reveal the main secret of the new Russia.

There is not a word of fiction in this book. It is based solely on eyewitness accounts and documents hidden by the Kremlin for many years.

The history of Yeltsin’s illness is the history of the illness of all of Russia. If only for this reason, we have the right to know the whole truth about the first president of the country, no matter how shocking it may be.

Sensational revelations of Alexander Khinshtein, supplemented by a foreword by Yeltsin’s personal physician Vladlen Vtorushin and comments by the permanent head of the Presidential Security Service Alexander Korzhakov , will allow us to find out what was going on behind the scenes of the “Kremlin theater of the absurd.” And exclusive photographs from the personal archives of Dmitry Sokolov, Lev Demidov and Lev Sukhanov will speak for themselves...