Weakened by internal confrontations and disorganized by the war, the Russian Empire was approaching its tragic end. Hunger riots and anti-war protests, revolutions, the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II from the throne and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks under the leadership of V.I. Lenin - contemporaries observed all these events with their own eyes in 1917, which became fateful for the country. Memoirs, diaries, fragments of letters, official documents, which historian Vladimir Romanov collected together in his book, will allow you to feel the ambiguity of revolutionary events and see them through the eyes of eyewitnesses. The main feature of the book is a three-pronged view of the events of 1917 in Russia: PRO, CONTRA and NEUTRALIS.