It is difficult to find a more vibrant, dynamic and at the same time dramatic period in recent history. It was “during Yeltsin’s time” and with his direct participation that events took place, each of which radically changed the history of our country. The collapse of the USSR and the creation of the CIS. The abolition of the CPSU, the KGB, the nomenclature state apparatus and the creation of a liberal government. It was under Yeltsin that privatization unfolded and a revolutionary change of ownership took place - from state to private. This process is accompanied by the shooting of Parliament and the dispersal of the Supreme Council, unprecedented in world history. The privatization of Russian mineral resources in a matter of years gives birth to a “family” of oligarchs, whose capital amazes even Western billionaires. The history of the first president of Russia and his oligarchic “family” is inseparable from the history of his blood family. The author of the book tries to explain the behavior of the country's key figures not only from the point of view of political science, but also from the position of personality psychology.