This work provides an account of the Crimean residency of Nicholas II's mother, Dowager Empress Maria Fedorovna, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, former Commander--in-Chief of the Russian Armies, and other members of the Romanov dynasty, from the abdication of the tsar (March 1917) until their departure aboard the H.M.S. Marlborough (April 1919). The first two chapters provide a background of conditions within the Imperial Family during the reign of Nicholas II. The remainder of the work traces their lives from arrival in the Crimea until the Dowager Empress accedes to the request of her sister, Dowager Queen Alexandra, to emigrate to England. The study concludes that the Romanovs played no active role in the Russian Civil War, although they were considered dangerous counterrevolutionaries by the Bolsheviks.

The main topic of the thesis is the investigation of the Polish influence on Russia during the Time of Troubles, as it's described by the Russian writers of the first half of 17th century in their Historical narrations. In the first part of the work there is introduced the Time of Troubles as a phenomenon that significantly influenced all its contemporaries. The thesis also pays attention to the historical sources, to their causes and circumstances of creation and also some of their authors. In the most extensive part of the work there are, based on extensive source material, discussed various topics that are focused on the Polish factor on the Russia during the period. There is mentioned the Polish support of False tsars, who aspire to the tsar title, the king's Zikmund military intervention and also the final victory of Russian militia over foreign interventionists. In conclusion there are compared individual historical narrations with each other, if there are any different topics that they describe or if they describe any element of Polish intervention in the same way or if there is any connection between the authors' lives and their works.