In the novel offered to the attention of the reader, two "main characters": I.V. Stalin and the author of this book. The first - Joseph Stalin - hardly needs a special introduction, since even today, more than half a century after his death, in the vastness of the Empire he once created, which existed until 1991, there are, presumably, not so many people who are unfamiliar with this name, although over the years the number of such, perhaps, will increase, since the area of ​ ​ oblivion is endless. The second character is Leo Yakovlev - a writer living in Kharkov, working, including in the biographical genre. His copyright is posted on the last page of the cover.