The last Russian Emperor Nicholas II is one of the most tragic and controversial figures of the 20th century. Nicknamed “bloody” for the brutal dispersal of a peaceful demonstration - Bloody Sunday, a weak tsar who lost the Russo-Japanese War and dragged Russia into the First World War, giving power to the revolutionaries almost without a fight - and at the same time an Orthodox martyr, barbarously killed by the Bolsheviks along with his family , a gentle husband and father, an enlightened and progressive monarch, who suffered all his life from the fact that the inexorable will of circumstances and historical predetermination was leading his country to the abyss. The famous French writer and historian Henri Troyat presents the reader with a sincere narrative filled with documentary details about the fate of the last Russian emperor.