Today, when it comes to the Russian Empire on the eve of 1917, the topic of “mediocre generals”, “rotten regime”, “weak-willed tsar”, “financial dependence on the West”, etc. almost always comes up. A stream of clichés about the backward “ “tsarist and autocratic” Russia came not only from the Bolsheviks, who sought to denigrate the hated regime, but also from representatives of the white movement, as well as from “Western partners.” Information warfare was not invented today, or even in the twentieth century. Only in the old days, the role of the Internet was played by newspapers and rumors. Myths about “poor, backward Tsarist Russia”, blatant class inequality, and the complete fiasco of the Russian army in the Crimean, Russo-Japanese and First World Wars have become so firmly ingrained in our consciousness that it is difficult for us to believe that in reality everything was different. Russia was one step away from victory in both the Russo-Japanese and the First World War. But internal traitors with foreign support twice led our country to defeat. Read this book and many myths will crumble to dust. I am sure that everyone will find the story that he, without knowing it, assessed on the basis of “independent journalism” and “objective evidence” of those years. But nothing has changed since then. Not in Russia, but in the assessments given to us by strict “Western teachers,” who for some reason consider themselves the only true branch of the development of human civilization.