The book tells about the personality of A.V. Samsonov (1859–1914) - an outstanding military and statesman of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. On its pages for the first time are presented materials that are now a bibliographic rarity, as well as documents, memoirs of contemporaries and testimonies of the general’s fellow countrymen, which have not previously been published and are in the funds of state archives and private collections of both Russia and Ukraine.