The value of this novel is that it was written hot on the heels of the events in May 1917. It bears the imprint of the socio-political sentiments of that time, but as a result, it is distinguished by high emotionality, tendentious selection and some one-sided interpretation of historical facts and phenomena, and has a pronounced revealing character. At the same time, the novel is distinguished by deep truthfulness, since it was written on a strictly documentary basis and is perhaps the first monograph (and this is how the author evaluates his work) about Emperor Nicholas. Included in the collection Nicholas II (Volume I).