According to the author of this book, the famous writer and publicist S. G. Kara-Murza, Stolypin's role in Russian history is far from unambiguous, and his real image is far from the ideal intensively created by the authorities. The myth of Stolypin is needed by the current government to justify its reforms, for the sake of which all the negative features of this statesman are forgotten, - even the fact that he actually became the "father" of the Russian revolution of 1917. In his book S. G. Kara-Murza collected many testimonies from contemporaries and documentary materials about P. A. Stolypin - all this makes it possible to objectively assess the personality of a person who is now declared a "symbol of Russia."