The book project-the dilogy of the famous historian and political scientist, chief researcher of the Moscow University of the Humanities, academician of the Petrovsky Academy of Sciences and Arts Alexander Nikitich Sevastyanov is dedicated to the two most problematic classes of Russian society - the intelligentsia and the nobility, who are currently under massive attack and even harassment in public opinion. Russian Russian nobility, the Russian intelligentsia, who just does not want to throw a stone at the Russian nobility! This aspiration, originating in the XIX century, reached its peak in the post-revolutionary decades, and today it is on the rise again along with the idea of a return to socialism. Meanwhile, no matter how you look at it, the nobility and the intelligentsia were the main detachments of the Russian and Russian elite before the revolution. The main accusation against our elite is that with its submission and with its direct active participation in the twentieth century, two total catastrophes occurred that twice put Russia and the Russian people on the brink of survival: the October Socialist Revolution of 1917 and the bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1991-1993. But was it really like that? Perhaps the intelligentsia and the nobility are "guilty without guilt"? The answer to these questions can be found in the book by A.N. Sevastyanov. "Apology" means "defensive speech". In this work, the author gives a decisive battle to noble and intellectual phobia, challenges everyone who does not recognize the hierarchical structure of society. The nobility and intelligentsia in his understanding are the salt of the Russian land. His argument is harsh, intolerant and politically incorrect. But it's hard to argue with her. The dilogy opens with a real volume dedicated to the nobility. This class, whose role in the history and culture of Russia cannot be overestimated, has almost ceased to exist today, has disappeared from the stage of the political life of our country. Nevertheless, it is extremely important to determine your attitude to it, because too much depends on it in assessing the Russian past and future, in assessing our historical path and our prospects. The proposed book serves this purpose.