The novel "Unclean Power" by V. Pikul was written in the 70s and was published in fragments in the journal "Our Contemporary" in 1979 under the title "At the Last Line," which the editors gave arbitrarily. The work was sharply criticized and was not published in full for ten years. The duration of the novel is between two revolutions in Russia. One of the main characters is Grigory Rasputin.