About the book: 2016 / The third volume of the epic novel "Power" begins with the events of 1905. The Year of Jack the Ripper, as one of the landowners celebrating New Year, misspoke, called it. But the definition turned out to be very realistic and was completely justified. On January 9, a bloodshed took place, which went down in history as “Bloody Sunday.” The war, unsuccessful for Russia, continued as before, causing revolutionary ferment in the army and navy - an armed uprising of Black Sea sailors in Sevastopol under the leadership of Lieutenant Schmidt. December armed uprising in Moscow. All these events were covered in the book. Terror was gaining strength. In February, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich was killed by the Social Revolutionaries. In the summer, the Moscow mayor Count P. P. Shuvalov was killed. In November - former Minister of War Adjutant General V.V. Sakharov. In December, the Tambov vice-governor N. E. Bogdanovich. Blood... Blood... Blood... Indeed, the fifth year turned out to be the year of Jack the Ripper for the country. The following year, the revolutionary wave began to wane, and Russia took the path of parliamentarism - in the spring of 1906 it began to work The first State Duma, to which Professor Georgy Akimovich Rubanov was elected. His older brother, General Maxim Akimovich, resigned due to disagreement with the conclusion of a peace treaty with Japan. In his opinion, the Japanese were completely exhausted, and Russia had only gained strength and in a few months would have confidently ended the war with victory. At the same time, a rapid economic recovery began in Russia, as a result of the appointment of P. A. Stolypin to the post of Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Just as rapidly The life vicissitudes of the younger branch of the Rubanovs - Akim and Gleb - took place. The novel shows their everyday life in the army, hunting in the family estate of Rubanovka and, of course, love... Olga and Natalie... Two women... And two brothers... How did their destinies become intertwined? Who stayed with whom? Read and find out.