About the book: year / An article by Valery Legostaev, who worked from 1983 to 1990 in the apparatus of the CPSU Central Committee, reveals little-known details from the life of Yu.A. Andropov . It was first published in the newspaper "Zavtra" in January-February 2004, No. 5-8. Its author has no doubt (although he stipulates that he does not impose this opinion) that Brezhnev fell victim to a political assassination in favor of Andropov, just as Grechko, Kulakov, Masherov and Suslov had previously become such victims.