About the book: 2009 / The end of a dynasty? Grand Duke Mikhail did not accept the throne from his abdicated brother. The reader follows how the revolution takes hold in Petrograd and Moscow; how it comes to Rostov, to the Don, to the Tambov region. The collapse of power is everywhere. The active Army was shaken by “Order No. 1” sent out by the Executive Committee. In many military units, front and rear, there is collapse and arbitrariness. The office has been irreversibly undermined. Riot on ships of the Baltic Fleet; murder of Admiral Nepenin. Arrest of the Sovereign at Headquarters, in Mogilev. His imprisonment with his family in Tsarskoe Selo.