About the book: 2016 / "The apogee of autocracy" - this was the name of the reign of Nicholas the First, and the emperor himself gained the fame of “a boa constrictor who strangled Russia for thirty years.” Is it possible for an ordinary “victim”, not a scientist or a special forces soldier, to radically change the course of Russian history? Deal with the opposition of the nobles, abolish serfdom, give land to the peasants, start the flywheel of the industrial revolution, rearm the army and navy for the coming battle with the British Empire and pacify the Caucasus once and for all? Will “Nikolai Palkin” be remembered by descendants as the Tsar-Liberator, bringing to life the words of a real emperor: “Where the Russian flag is raised, it should not be lowered”!»