95 years have passed since the deposed Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, his family and four of their associates were vilely killed in Yekaterinburg. The new book by Sergei Plekhanov convincingly reveals the positive role of Nicholas II in Russian and world history, shows the greatness of the life feat of the Orthodox Sovereign. Nicholas II is presented as an integral and versatile personality. The galaxy of statesmen he put forward, such as Pobedonostsev and Stolypin, military leaders such as General Brusilov and Admiral Makarov, despite the ambiguity of attitude towards them on the part of his contemporaries and descendants, testifies to Nicholas II as a ruler who stood above subjective biases. The author debunks the stereotypes of biased propaganda and the tricks of pseudo-historians who seek to belittle the scale and significance of the activities of the patriotic monarch, who led the country during a period of internal unrest and unprecedented external threats. The tragedy of the royal family became the prologue to the enslavement of a free people unprecedented in history. But the shed blood of the royal martyrs calls for the awakening and revival of Russia. The book is addressed to a reader who does not want to be content with established explanations of historical phenomena, but who strives to understand the secret springs of events that changed the world in the past and are changing it before our eyes.