The new book of the famous Russian writer-marine painter Vladimir Shigin is dedicated to the revolutionary sailors of Russia and covers the period from the February to the October Revolution. It was at this time that the sailors showed themselves as an independent force with which all political parties, without exception, flirted, trying to enlist their support. At the same time, the sailors themselves sought to maintain complete independence not only from political parties, but also from the Provisional Government. In the struggle for sailor hearts and souls, the revolutionaries went to literally everything, desperately competing with each other and turning a blind eye to the extreme left radicalism of the sailors. About the difficult vicissitudes of 1917 associated with the sailor revolutionary movement, about the secrets associated with the Central Balt and the "Kronstadt Republic," the activities of Admiral Kolchak in the Black Sea Fleet and the participation of sailors in the assault on the Winter Palace are described in this book. The reader will find many new, previously unknown facts that will completely change our idea not only of revolutionary sailors, but also of the political situation itself in 1917.