At present, history, as an exact science, is experiencing a crisis. The stores are filled with “historical works” close to the fantasy style, and each author strives to convince the reader that his version of history is true. In such conditions, books containing eyewitness accounts, figures and facts become especially valuable - all of this is a solid foundation on which you can build your knowledge about the history of the Fatherland. This is this book. Ivan Solonevich, a famous Russian publicist and public figure, in his small work, analyzed - as if he had revealed with a scalpel - the reasons for the February Revolution, its culprits, its great lie, which was also noted by the overthrown Sovereign: “There is treason, cowardice and deception all around.” Student and teacher, student and teacher and just a lover of Russian history - everyone will find in this book a lot of interesting things about the revolutionary era and the first decade of Soviet power, as well as the author’s excursions into the depths of centuries. To those historical events that became fatal for the Russian Empire and the Romanov dynasty.