This publication is a new biography of perhaps the most colorful figure of the world revolutionary movement of the 19th century - Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1814–1876), whom his contemporaries called the “father of anarchy”, “apostle of freedom” and “citizen of the world”. Doctor of Philosophy V. N. Demin made an attempt to overcome the one-sided idea of this extraordinary personality that had existed for a long time, showing Bakunin not only surrounded by his wonderful family and great friends (Chaadaev, Belinsky, Turgenev, Herzen, Ogarev, Richard Wagner, Georges Sand, Proudhon, Garibaldi, etc.), but also in the perception of opponents, enemies and falsifiers of his ideological heritage.