- Narrator: Nine years of peace followed and the Tsar was able to get out and meet his beloved people again. He dispensed with his experiments in democracy, dissolved the Duma, and dismisssed Witte. But the country was never to be the same again. Some people had learnt their lesson - others had not.
- Ratchkowsky: Tell me Mr Witte - do you think there'll be peace this year?
- Witte: If there is not, sir, we shall have revolution.