50 ottenkov serogo kardinala : kto pravit mirom - Latypov N.N., Tushev S.S., Deikina T.K.

The expression "cardinal" was first used in 17th-century France. And the first such cardinal was not Richelieu, as it is customary to think for the second century. Indeed, in the time of King Louis XIII, the country was de facto ruled by the red (in the color of the headdress) Cardinal Richelieu, which was greatly influenced by the Capuchin monk Father Joseph, who preferred to keep in the shadows. And it was Father Joseph, who was wearing a gray soutana, called the "grey cardinal."
The same book contains real "grey cardinals" who defined the face not only of the past, but also of the present century: Brzezinski, Suslov, Kissinger and further on the title of the book.
How was the turbulence of today's world the result of yesterday's tactical victory of one "grey cardinal" over another and, paradoxically, a strategic defeat of both? Who really "does" the story? Brilliant first faces or their gray shadows? The reader learns the answers to these and other questions from a book written in living language with strict follow-up to historical facts.