“The Autocrat of the Desert” is a book about the life of Roman Fedorovich Ungern-Sternberg (1886–1921), an Estonian baron, a white general and a Mongol khan, about the fate of people associated with him, about the Civil War in eastern Russia. This is a new, significantly revised and supplemented edition with a unique selection of photographs.“The gloomy charm of Ungern is not limited to the “charm of evil. One of the first in the twentieth century, Ungern passed that ancient path on which a wandering knight becomes a wandering murderer, a dreamer - an executioner, a mystic - a doctrinaire. On this path, a person who seeks to return the golden age to earth returns not even a copper, but a stone one ”(Leonid Yuzefovich).