"Self-portrait, or of Message of hung" up are reflections of Boris Березовского about itself and near, friends and enemies, about Russia and world, people and elite, faith and freedom, Russians and jewries. In the plots presented by an author, a reader will find living characters of the leading Russian politicians, in their number of Yuriy Luzhkov and Evgeny Примакова, Anatoliy Чубайса and Grigory Yavlinsky. In a book in detail it is told about the presidential electioneering 1996 year, during that the Russian oligarchs of the first wave, at the head with Березовским, were united round Yeltsin for prevention of credible victory Gennady Зюганова| by the first and second чеченских wars| collisions of author with the special services of Russia. The special attention Березовский spares to history of origin in Russia of large business in an initial period of privatizing the participant of that he was together with other oligarchs : by Vladimir Гусинским, By Roman Абрамовичем, Mikhail Ходорковским. Quite a bit pages in "Messages" are spared to two historical personages - presidents of Russia to Boris to Yeltsin and Vladimir to Putin.And nevertheless it foremost is a book on Березовском ambiguous and contradictory, optimist and pessimist, naive and perfidious Player.