1905. Rehearsal of disaster

This book is a real time machine. Start reading it, and she will transfer you to the beginning of the last century, in the year of the first Russian revolution. From the first pages you will feel the amazing aroma of the era, which occupies a special place in the history of the Russian state. These are the years of the Russian “thaw”, but not granted from above, but conquered in the fight against bureaucratic tyranny.
The reader will find vivid and expressive descriptions of revolutionary events on the pages of the book. Like any historical stage, the time of the first Russian revolution is marked by originality and unique features. However, getting acquainted with the events of more than a century ago, we involuntarily compare Russia of the very distant past with Russia today and find many strikingly similar generic features.
The author of the book is the representative of the “revolutionary” at that time of the European nation, the French journalist and writer Gaston Leru, who became famous as the literary father of Rultabia, the popular hero of adventure novels. In 1905, he came to Russia as his own correspondent of the Maten newspaper and in his essays and correspondence talented, colorfully and incredibly portrayed the life of the Russian people during the acute political turmoil. Today, today, these notes of the French friend of Russia, undoubtedly, will help to better know and understand our country and ourselves