“Successor. The story of Boris Nemtsov and the country where he did not become president is a political biography of Boris Nemtsov written by journalist Mikhail Fishman. Nemtsov came into public life in the late 80s, at the height of Gorbachev's perestroika, in the 90s he became governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, made a rapid career, and at one time Yeltsin saw him as his successor. In the 2000s, he went into opposition to the authorities, and on February 27, 2015, he was killed on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge opposite the Kremlin. Nemtsov became a participant and witness to all the most important events in recent Russian history, from the first free elections and the coup of 1991 to the rallies on Bolotnaya Square in 2011-2012 and the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Built on hundreds of interviews, as well as archival data and memoirs, this book is a journey through Russian history of the last thirty years. Going through all the main milestones of the country's recent past together with Nemtsov, the author is looking for an answer to the question: how and why Russia lost its freedom.The publisher's layout has been saved in a4.pdf format.