The authors called their work a chronicle novel in monologues and documents. The events of the February Revolution of 1917 are given in it through the eyes of participants and eyewitnesses, representatives of various political camps. The reader finds himself at the epicenter of events, witnesses powerful demonstrations of the St. Petersburg proletariat, the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, convulsive attempts by bourgeois leaders to save the monarchy, the creation, on the one hand, of the executive committee of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, and on the other, of the Provisional Government.