"All is poison, and nothing is deprived toxicity| one only dose does poison unnoticeable", - a famous naturalist and physician of Renaissance Парацельс age asserted. The rock pages of the cruel poisoning are entered in the chronicle of humanity. Ancient world, Renaissance, century of Inlightening, contemporaneity. At any time poison substances became the weapon of cowards and scoundrels, fanatics and maniacs, executioners and rulers of destinies. All of it is reflected in an unique book - first complete history of poisons. Her heroes is Cleopatra and Nero, Socrates and Hannibal, Gorki and Золя, Stalin and Peter I. And the stage of this endless, cruel and keen theatrical is the whole world.