The paper addresses the problem of the influence of the camarilla of internal and external policies of the last Russian emperor. Based on the analysis of materials of the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry of Provisional Government, and other sources in the article assesses the role and importance of the camarilla in policy decisions Nicholas II. The article concludes that the camarilla, the so-called «dark forces», along with other negative factors, have played a fateful role in the fate of the country.