Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk is a 1997 memoir

Memoir

A memoir , is a literary genre, forming a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir set out below...

 book by Aleksandr Korzhakov, former head of Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of...

's security. In it Korzhakov describes eleven years of his service and the personality of his patron, first president of Russia

Russia

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. Yeltsin is portrayed as a heavy-drinker who hides his health problems. Korzhakov claims that he was offered $5 million for not publishing this book by business oligarch

Business oligarch

Business oligarch is a near-synonym of the term "business magnate", borrowed by the English speaking and western media from post-Soviet parlance to describe the huge, fast-acquired wealth of some businessmen of the former Soviet republics during the privatization in Russia and other post-Soviet...

 Boris Berezovsky, who is depicted as Yeltsin's courtier and a crime mastermind.