About the book: 2016 / At the end of 2015, the Yeltsin Center was opened in Yekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk) with great fanfare. A pompous building called a museum, the leadership of which aims to show future generations what Russia was like during the era of Boris Yeltsin. Naturally, the bias in the activities of this museum will be towards the ennoblement of that time. But were those times really so “noble” if they were recorded in people’s memory as the “dashing 90s”? And what exactly was their “daringness”? Book by Fedor Razzakov. “Bandits of the Yeltsin era, or Russia washed in blood” resurrects all this, dissecting that time with merciless surgical scrupulousness. A scalpel in the hands of a historian acts ruthlessly and inexorably. There is not a word of untruth in this book, since it is based on a real crime chronicle of those years, collected from a variety of printed sources of that time: books, newspapers and magazines. This book will never appear in the Yeltsin Center collections as a visual exhibit, but this is precisely what It is valuable because of its non-partisanship. In a country where liberal propaganda bends over backwards to ennoble the Yeltsin era (it is no coincidence that almost all the cream of the modern liberal crowd paid their attention to the opening of the Yeltsin Center), books about bandits born in the era of “dear Boris Nikolayevich” a priori cannot be in the liberal trend. But this does not mean at all that they will not be in demand by another audience - one for whom that era is still a bleeding wound. It is with the goal that those times are not forgotten and never return that this book was written.