B. Sadovskaya tried to reveal the genesis of the “intelligentsia” Russophobia in the story “Bloody Star”, addressed to the era of Emperor Nicholas I, large-scale in content and questions posed. This story can be perceived as a kind of prologue to “The Sixth Hour”; however, it may have been written precisely for this purpose. The bloody star here is a “dark red pentagon” (which after 1917 the Bolsheviks would make their state emblem), a symbol of Masonic circles, essentially - this is the author’s concept - anti-Russian , anti-Orthodox, anti-monarchical. “Bloody Star” tells how the ideologists of Russophobia (foreigners! - such an emphasis is important for the author) managed to involve Tsarevich Alexander, the future emperor-liberator Alexander II, into their networks. He was seduced by the beautiful Geta, the daughter of a baron-diplomat from the Dutch embassy (the same one where the stepfather of Pushkin’s killer Heeckeren served) from his marriage with the illegitimate daughter of the international adventurer and despot Napoleon, the idol of all “enlightened” Europe and, of course, Russia. Having fallen under the spell of a baroness hired “for love” and having lost the ability to adequately analyze the current situation, the Tsarevich is ready to do anything the beauty wants: to run away with her, to be her servant, even to kill a person close to him, a friend from his childhood, the poet Alexei Tolstoy . Geta, rejecting all these impulses, wished only one thing: “... when you are king <...> free your people from slavery. And the Tsarevich vowed to accomplish this... “Free your people from slavery.” What does this sacramental phrase mean in the mouth of the enemy? This means, the author makes it clear, “free your people from Russian Orthodox traditions, from responsibility for the fate of the fatherland, plunge them into chaos, anarchy, and revolution.” Sadovskoy, a determined opponent of the 1917 revolution, was convinced that it was the peasant, as well as other liberal reforms of Alexander II, that in many ways prepared and brought it closer. “Bloody Star” is the Apocalypse, but, unlike “The Sixth Hour”, already without the idea of Resurrection. This is a story about the death of the Russian land. In the scene that concludes “Bloody Star”, Baroness Geta, in the rapture of secret terrible knowledge, gives her guests, Tsarevich Alexander and Count Tolstoy, a mystical history lesson with a foresight of the future, offering riddles, the answers to which are always death.