Nikolay II. Rasstrelyannaya korona. Kniga 1

Imperator Nikolay II - posledniy rossiyskiy monarh, kotoryy svoey tragicheskoy sudboy zavershil velikuyu epohu rossiyskogo samoderzhaviya. Lichnost yarkaya, silnaya, poroy zagadochnaya i protivorechivaya. V gody ego pravleniya Rossiya perezhila edva li ne samye trudnye, zhestokie i strashnye ispytaniya za vsyu svoyu istoriyu. Volevoy, s fenomenalnoy pamyatyu, ne teryayuschiy samoobladaniya dazhe v samye kriticheskie mgnoveniya, imperator Nikolay II vmeste s tem proizvodil vpechatlenie myagkogo, poroy zastenchivogo cheloveka. Vlast, dannuyu emu, on nes kak krest, kak velenie Boga, bez ropota i unyniya. Ego otrechenie ot prestola do sih por vyzyvaet zharkie spory u politikov i istorikov, kotorye pytayutsya dat ischerpyvayuschiy otvet: chto stalo by s Rossiey, so vsemi nami, esli by posledniy imperator postupil inache? Etot zamechatelnyy roman ne pretenduet na istinu v posledney instantsii, no, tem ne menee, pomogaet vzglyanut na Nikolaya Aleksandrovicha Romanova sovsem s drugoy storony i sovsem drugimi glazami…