Editing Eduard Limonov (section)

=== Life from 1991-1995 and Foundation of the NBP ===
In August 1991, taking advantage of Gorbachev's absence from Moscow, some conservative soldiers attempt a coup by attacking Parliament in Moscow, but under the leadership of Yeltsin, president of the Russian republic, a strong resistance is organized, which forces the coup leaders to capitulate after four days. Limonov is in Paris at the time, and obviously sided with the putschists, publishing articles of applause and support for those he believes can awaken the former glories of the Soviet Union.

During this period, Limonov moves between Paris, the Balkans and Russia, where he returns every two or three months, being baffled by the rapidity of the changes. 

At that moment, he comes into contact with like-minded characters: Colonel Alksnis, intellectual Aleksandr Gel'evič Dugin. The two slowly decide that it is necessary to enter politics in the first person and therefore founded the National Bolshevik Party.

In September 1993, Yeltsin decrees the dissolution of the Duma and calls for new elections. For most of the parliamentarians it is a new attempt at a coup d'état and they are perched in the parliament building, led by vice president Ruckoj. Limonov and Colonel Alknis, along with thousands of other "patriots", rush to defend the rebels against the hated Yeltsin. Ruckoj gives the order to go to conquer the television tower, the Ostankino tower. Eduard leaves for the destination together with a multitude of supporters, but when they arrive, they find the army that does not hesitate to fire on the crowd. There are many deaths and also Limonov is wounded in the shoulder.

The elections that follow will be the first in which the National Bolshevik party participates and Eduard presents himself in the Tver district. In reality, at that moment the party has only three members, so the electoral campaign cannot enjoy funding and propagandists, and Eduard and Rabko (the third member of the party) have to do practically everything. The results are not exciting and, even before the end of the polls, Limonov returns to Paris, where he finds his wife drunk after a three-day orgy with two strangers.

Disappointed by everyone, he immediately left for the Balkans, where he enlisted among Arkan's troops, asking to be assigned to the defense of the Serbian republic of Krajina. However, after a couple of months in which he was able to fight the fierce guerrilla war in the mountains of Krajina, the complex diplomatic games cause Arkan to fall out of favor and his army to be demobilized.