How Yeltsin chose the successor

December 31, 1999, in connection with the early resignation of the President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, acting as the president, became Prime Minister V.V. Putin.
For many potential throne holders, this has become a shock. Meanwhile, the most difficult tests were waiting for the new head of state: the death of the atomic underwater cruiser "Kursk" in the Barents Sea, explosions in the center of Moscow, and a fire on the Ostankino television tower were added to the acute Kremlin intrigues and hostilities in Chechnya ...
But so far many in Russia and the world are wondering - how did a little -known Kremlin official manage to occupy the highest post of Russia?
It is precisely this question that the famous Russian author Nikolai Zenkovich answers in his new book