Volunteer. The Smell of an Upcoming War

Continuation of the novel “The Volunteer. On the Great War.” Having been on the battlefields of the First World War, our contemporary Mikhail Krynnіkov finds himself in another time again—facing unexpected obstacles, resistance, and outright anachronisms. Russia of the mid-nineteenth century is approaching the end of Emperor Nicholas I’s reign. A clear scent of an upcoming big war—later to be called the “Crimean War”—is in the air, even though the fighting will occur even in Kamchatka. But is the country, its army and navy, its economy and industry ready for it? Is the leadership ready? Can one person—the volunteer Krynnіkov—shift the cumbersome machine of the Russian Empire to change the tragic outcome of the war to come?