Boris Yeltsin's policy in the mid and late 1990s was shaped under the influence of the Family, a narrow circle of people who influenced all key decisions in the country. Journalist Valentin Yumashev also joined this informal circle. How did this happen and what decisions did he help the president make? How did the fate of Yumashev and other Yeltsin's relatives develop during Putin's rule? Does Vladimir Putin, whom these people brought to power at the end of Yeltsin's rule, have his own "family"? How is the support group of the first person formed in general and how much does the first person depend on it? In order to understand the mechanisms of Russian power, the well-known journalist Ilya Zhegulev spent many hours in conversations with key members of the Family, friends and foes, and wrote a collective history of people involved in the government of the country.