The book includes the novel by E. Kholmogorova and M. Kholmogorov "Vice Emperor," which tells about the life of a prominent Russian military leader and statesman of the era of Alexander II Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov (1825-1888). His "dictatorship of the heart," brilliant and brief, provided Russia with the last chance to peacefully, without shocks, move to civilized democratic rule.