The attitude to the monarch and the problem of political self-identification of the Russian officers before the revolution of 1917

The article considers the peculiarities of how Russian officers perceived the policy of the tsarist government and the behavior of Tsar Nickolas II before the February revolutionary upheaval. The author reveals the specifics and differences in political self-identification of the Russian army commanders, reconstructs the psychological attitudes to the authorities, which found their expression in the social activity of the officers' corporation representatives at the moment of downfall of the empire.