Hermann Goering is a complex, extraordinary personality, not fully known. “Renaissance Man”, as he called himself, “king of the black market”, according to Himmler’s definition, “Nazi No. 2” - “Iron Herman”, unlike many bosses of Nazi Germany, remained loyal to the Fuhrer even after the collapse of the Third Reich. he owed his dizzying career not only to his special relationship with Hitler, but, above all, to his own indomitable energy, unprincipledness and political flair. Historian Boris Sokolov managed to find little-known and completely unfamiliar materials to the domestic reader, shedding light on the life and death of Goering, the famous pilot and the powerful Reichsmarshal, who ended his journey in a cell in a Nuremberg prison.