G.A. Shevchenko is a candidate of legal sciences, the author of more than 70 scientific papers, a former employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has the diplomatic rank of attache. Gennady Shevchenko writes about the fate of his father, Arkady Shevchenko, and the international scandal associated with him. On the pages of the book, the backstage life of diplomats and high-ranking officials is revealed with utmost frankness, for the first time it is described in detail about what happened to the Shevchenko family who remained in Moscow.