Letters to loved ones: Complete collection in 16 volumes. Volume 4. 1905 year

1905-the year of the first Russian revolution. Starting with a “bloody Sunday”, strikes, unrest throughout the empire and ending with an armed uprising in Moscow, he will turn Russia into a constitutional monarchy, opening a new, Duma, period in the history of the country ...

“Letters to the Near” - a publishing project that has no analogues of Worth -Russian history. From 1902 to 1917-the year of the February, and then October, revolution-“Letters” by Mikhail Menshikov (1859–1918), one of the key journalists of the era, were published monthly in separate notebooks. Subscribers then gathered them under domestic bindings, and every year the volume of this peculiar annals appeared on the book regiments of the country.

Each volume is an integral section of the life of Russian society in a wide global context. From the history of everyday life and private life-to socio-economic generalizations and political analysis. From artistic criticism - to travel notes. From salon conversations - to parliamentary reports.

A year after a year on the pages of letters a country comes to life, not yet knowing its future. Her whole life is in the present, the present, which, contrary to expectations and today far from remaining in the past