A short essay by famous Moscow authors Alexander and Maxim Andreev tells about the turbulent thousand-year history of the amazing Belarusian people, which at the turn of the times was led by Alexander Lukashenko. It tells in detail about the situation in which Belarus found itself in 1991, and how it moved towards the creation of the second independent state in its history, creating it a thousand years after the Principality of Polotsk by the outstanding statesman Vseslav the Prophet. The essay tells about the dramatic path to power of Alexander Lukashenko , his first presidential campaign, it also details how the people's president led his country and its people through all the obstacles born of the very difficult beginning of the third millennium.