Nodar Jean emigrated to the United States in 1980, being the youngest Doctor of Philosophy in the USSR, and gained fame there not only as a scientist awarded international prizes, but also as a writer. This book is about Stalin, but it can hardly be placed among classical anti-Stalinism, be it the works of A. Solzhenitsyn or A. Rybakov. Gene's novel, written on behalf of the "leader of all times", a kind of "Gospel of Joseph" - a tragic confession and at the same time a philosophical phantasmagoria about the vicissitudes of human fate, the story of how a man who found himself at the pinnacle of power and accomplished a lot of what he is capable of Perhaps the devil himself could become different.