In contrast to the numerous, often dishonest, politicized and even openly slanderous literature dedicated to the Sovereign Emperor Nicholas II, the book by Viktor Sergeevich Kobylin is one of the most fundamental and honest works on this topic - a work built on the basis of documents and facts. For the first time this book entitled “Emperor Nicholas II and Adjutant General M.V. Alekseev" was published in New York in 1970. We considered it useful to publish the preface to the lifetime edition, compiled by the All-Slavic Publishing House, which published the book. We have also retained some of the now outdated spelling rules that the author adhered to. The publication is equipped with notes, comments and a search key that will serve as a help to anyone who is seriously interested in the real, and not the mythical, image of the Holy Passion-Bearing Emperor.