Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov lived under six rulers of the Soviet state. Five of them - Beria (read Stalin), Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Gorbachev - he met personally and hoped that somehow he would be able to influence their decisions. But he had a real impact on the society of his country. He was born under Lenin and died under Gorbachev, a year and a half before the day of the collapse of the state, to the strengthening of which he contributed in the first half of his life and which he fought in the second. This "turning point", as he himself called it, is the most interesting thing in Sakharov's history.
