This book can be called a “portrait against the background of an era,” and a very objective portrait, which will undoubtedly arouse the interest of the modern reader, who will have the opportunity to get acquainted with little-known pages of the history of our country, to learn a lot of new and even unexpected things for himself. The author is not seeks neither to demonize nor to whitewash in any way his hero - the “fiery revolutionary” and chairman of the Cheka. After all, the events of the late 19th - early 20th centuries in Russia had their own inexorable, terrible logic, and the name of Felix Dzerzhinsky is inextricably linked with them.