About the book: 2011 / Whoever wrote, with the light hand of A. Avtorkhanov, about the violent death of V. I. Stalin! Interest in the topic of the murder (poisoning) of the leader did not subside in the “era of Khrushchev”; it arose again in the mid-70s, in the “era of Brezhnev”, but especially flared up in the last 20 years, when historians and writers became available to preserved documents and materials from Stalin's medical history, including a handwritten journal of medical observations and prescriptions, which was kept by doctors during the leader's three-day agony. Based on the works of various researchers, the author of the book, the famous historian A. L. Kostin, consistently destroys the existing numerous versions of Stalin's violent death, the main the difference between them is that in some versions L.P. Beria is “deduced” as the murderer, and in others N.S. Khrushchev, who himself did not always refuse this role. Then where do the ideas about Stalin’s violent death come from? A. Kostin offers his own, fascinating, almost detective version of the existence of certain mysterious circumstances that accompanied Stalin’s sudden illness and death, which served as the source of the birth of the phenomenon of his violent death.