Revolutions do not occur unexpectedly, empires do not die for any reason. The main lesson that we can learn from the 1917 revolution is to understand why the emperor and his entourage, in an environment that required radical internal reforms, not only did not dare to make these reforms, but, on the contrary, tried with all their might to reverse the development of the country, strengthening reliance on "traditional values," Orthodoxy and the army.