Continuing the screenplay for reading about the events associated with the Munich conspiracy of 1938.

Sequel of the screenplay for reading about events associated with the Munich conspiracy of 1938.

Russia found itself “non-protected and non-defended”. No one could foresee the state recreation through great upheavals, civil war and new modernization.

The emperor believed that the Orthodox people will not dare to harm Russia for the sake of political intrigues.

Noble officers and peasants-soldiers were constructors of the Empire, the army was a continuation of the estate and the peasant community, the continuation of “eternity”.

Nicholas II saw the ideal of the Orthodox Empire in the unity of the state and the Orthodox Church, but bishops were striving for independence, actually — for separating from the state.

At the time, when the World War forces were already gathered, there lived in Russia one happy family, in which husband and wife doted each other, and children were surrounded by care and love. Perhaps there were quite a lot of such families. But we shall talk about only one, the family of Nicholay Alexandrovich and Alexandra Feodorovna, the Emperor and the Empress.

Balancing between strong European states, the peripheral Russia tried to secure its economic development and not to slide down to the status of a semi-colonial country.

Postreform Russia is a new country developing with different speeds.

We begin to publish fragments from the new book by S.Y. Rybas “They are the first to enter the Hell, or the total plot”. This is a book about the February 1917, about secret circumstances and figures of the coup d’état, accomplished by political, financial and military top of the Russian Empire. The author examines the nature of the plot as a problem of relations between society and the power on the background of intra-collision of economic and political interests, as well as international competition for access to resources and communications.