About the book: 1982 / Mikhail Kochnev conceived a trilogy about the Decembrists. The novel “Otpor” was published by Soviet Russia in 1971. Sovremennik offers the reader a second work: “The Cause of All Russia” - a multifaceted epic narrative about the beginning of the Decembrist movement. The writer shows what gigantic labors and sacrifices were required from the Decembrist heroes - P. I. Pestel, S. I. Muravyov-Apostol, K. F. Ryleev, A. A. Bestuzhev, I. D. Yakushkin and others - their work . Death prevented the writer from completing work on the third part - about the Decembrist uprising on December 14, 1825.