About the book: year / What if in Japan a samurai had struck with a stronger sword? About that Russia that we lost (or didn’t find?). Although... not I'm sure everything will be fine. Maybe it will turn out the other way around - everything will be even worse. In any case, I always try to write more or less objectively. Without the crunch of buns, but without the gloomy atmosphere of general flogging, snickering tops and collapse, about which it has now become fashionable to write again. There were smart people at that time too. And the ideas that they tried to introduce were no worse than the October exercises of the Bolsheviks. But... the authorities listened to others, which is primarily the fault of Nicholas 2 and his entourage. Or not only them?