Y.L. Rapoport, a prominent Soviet medical scientist, was one of the main defendants in the 1953 "doctors' case." According to the materials of the investigation, they killed I.V. Stalin - a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks A.A. Zhdanov, as well as the First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks A.S. Shcherbakov; in addition, they were preparing an attempt on Stalin himself. In his book, Y.L. Rapoport talks in detail about all the circumstances of this case, talks about how the Soviet leaders were actually treated, about Stalin and his entourage, about the reasons for the repressions against the Kremlin doctors. His story contains many details known only to the author, and represents a unique source on this topic.