A unique series about the greatest rulers of all times and peoples - real geniuses of power who changed the course of history and determined the fate of the world. Lessons in the struggle for power and the secrets of their personal lives. Master class from the grandmasters of the “game on the world chessboard”: how to get to the political Olympus and, most importantly, stay at its top? The best modern biography of one of the greatest politicians of the 20th century - Winston Churchill. A descendant of an ancient family, he had no fortune and made his living with a pen, writing more than Walter Scott and Dickens combined, and even - the only one of all politicians - received the Nobel Prize for literature for his famous memoirs. He was fond of painting and participated in Parisian exhibitions under a false name. He drank a lot and gambled widely. The scandalous details of the personal life of his mother, daughter-in-law and one of his daughters served as food for the “yellow press” for three generations, but high society chroniclers, despite all their efforts, could not find anything about Churchill himself - his only passion was politics. During his long political life, Sir Winston held almost every possible position in the government and headed it twice, and the prime minister’s “bulldog grip,” indomitable will and unbending courage were legendary. He hated communism - but loved Cuban cigars and, according to rumors, Armenian cognac. He considered Stalin “a fiend of hell” - but was forced to conclude a military alliance with him (it is Churchill who is credited with the most famous aphorism about the Kremlin dictator, who allegedly “having accepted Russia with a plow, left it with an atomic bomb”). And Stalin himself, who saw Churchill as “the worst enemy of the USSR,” nevertheless gave him the most flattering description: “Never before has there been a case when the courage of one person had such an influence on the course of history...”