About the book: 2014 / Multatuli, Pyotr Valentinovich (1969-). “God forbid, just don’t get drawn into a war!” Emperor Nicholas II and the pre-war crisis of 1914 [Text]: Facts against myths / P. V. Multatuli; Russian Institute of Strategic Research. - Moscow: RISI, 2014. - 250 pp.; 20 cm; ISBN 978-5-7893-0208-8 The book is dedicated to the policy of Emperor Nicholas II to prevent world war. Essentially, the desire to avoid Russia's involvement in a European war, while simultaneously maintaining its importance as a leading world power, was the main goal of the Tsar's foreign policy throughout his reign. This desire was most clearly manifested in the pre-war situation of June - August 1914. The peacekeeping role of Nicholas II was distorted and slandered for many years in Soviet historical science, not to mention the public consciousness of that time.