The book includes essays telling about the events of the first Russian revolution in our country and in our region, about the people's revolution - the harbinger of all the revolutionary storms of the 20th century. Essays are compiled on the basis of available scientific literature, archival sources, publications of those years, the author's own scientific research and observations. Without fear of introducing his emotional attitude towards them into the description of events, the author tried to speak more in the language of documents. Because it is the language of fact, the historian's most convincing and reliable tool.