The study of the deputy of the State Duma of Russia, certified historian Oleg Shein is devoted to the history of the revolutionary events of 1917-1919 in the Astrakhan Territory. Moscow and Astrakhan archives, including the FSB archives closed for public study, the press of that era, the recollections of the participants - one and a half thousand documents introduced by the author into scientific circulation, allow you to see time in its diversity and contradictions, and behind the names of tablets on the streets - living people.