About the book: 2007 / The eighth volume contains the ending of "August the Fourteenth" - the first Knot of the historical epic "The Red Wheel". It not only completed the display and analysis of the Samsonov disaster, but also gave an artistic overview of the reign of the last Emperor Nicholas II up to the First World War and clearly presented the figure of Prime Minister P. A. Stolypin, his works, reforms and tragic death.