The name of Jozef Pilsudski for many years was surrounded by silence both in the USSR and in his homeland, in Poland. There is an explanation for this - Pilsudski, who fought for the independence of his country, was an implacable enemy of both tsarist and Soviet Russia. In Poland itself, he established a dictatorship, brutally suppressed the opposition, and encouraged the emergence of a cult of his personality. Despite this, Pilsudski remains the most prominent Polish politician of the first half of the 20th century, the restorer of the Polish state after many years of colonial oppression, a bright and extraordinary person whose personality left an imprint on all subsequent development of the country. The first biography of Y. Pilsudsky in Russia was written by a famous scientist, Doctor of Historical Sciences G.F. Matveev based on a wide range of sources.