About the book: 2010 / In the book of the famous historian V.M. Loginov collected unique material from I.V. Stalin - the way his chief bodyguard N.S. saw the leader. Vlasik. The basis of the book is made up of documents that until recently were classified as “Secret”. First of all, they include the “Notes” of Vlasik, who held the post of head of the Main Directorate of the Kremlin Security from 1927 to 1952. In addition, with his memories of I.V. Stalin and N.S. Vlasika is shared by government security officers G.A. Egnatashvili and P.M. Rusishvili. They show life in the Kremlin in the 1930s and 1940s. as if “from the inside,” they depict the situation that then developed in our country. Little-known letters from Stalin and official documents of that time are published in the appendix of the book.