 In the epoch of globalization an individual may change the development of the country and of the whole world, so this gives reasons to some scholars to suggest returning to the problem of the role of the hero in history from the viewpoint of modern historical knowledge and using up-to-date methods of historical analysis.Within the frameworks of developing counterfactual history, attempts are made to examine some hypothetical scenarios of historical development.The hero attracts much attention because most of those scenarios are based on the suppositions