If Peter the Great was like a stormy stream rushing towards its intended goal, breaking, disintegrating and destroying everything in its path, then he, Emperor Nicholas II, could compare himself to a quiet and calm river, which also rolled its waters forward tirelessly, gradually and slowly, without shaking, washing away the old in the name of the new. " - wrote one of the chairmen (1955-1980) of the Union of Fans in Memory of Emperor Nicholas II, Sergei Dmitrievich Pozdnishev (1889-1980), Russian military leader, Major General, participant in the White Movement, Secretary of the Foreign Union of Russian Military Disabled.