About the book: 2009 / February 1917. The rebellion in Petrograd was suppressed by troops loyal to the throne. The Petrograd Soviet was defeated, Alexander Kerensky died in battle. The worst page of Russian history has been crossed out and completely rewritten. There will be neither a powerless Provisional Government, nor a Bolshevik coup, nor the obscene Brest Peace. In the spring of 1917, the Russian army - for the first time since the beginning of the war, abundantly supplied with everything necessary, not corrupted by defeatist propaganda - was preparing for a decisive offensive on all fronts, and the Black Sea Fleet was preparing for the Bosphorus landing operation. We will raise the Russian flag over ancient Constantinople! We will return the crosses to Hagia Sophia! We will wash our boots in the Oder and Elbe and will stamp our steps along the pavements of defeated Berlin - under the thunder of solemn fireworks, under the jubilant brass of victorious marches: “We will boldly go into battle for holy Rus'!..»