The Fugitive Emperor: The Mercenary

Since school years, Ivan Romanov became interested in historical reenactment thanks to his neighbor and senior friend—an interest that later influenced his choice of higher education, even though the young man grew up in a family of an engineer and a linguist. After finishing a history degree, he went into science and earned a Candidate of Historical Sciences degree. At the University, on his father’s advice, he finished a military department. In 2022, during a mobilization, he was sent to the SVO zone as a platoon commander. A year later, he died in one of the combat operations.

For some unknown way, Ivan Romanov’s mind ended up in the past—in the body of the heir to the throne of the Russian Empire, Ioann (John) the Sixth Antonovich, in 1762. And immediately he found himself in a prison cell in the Shlisselburg Fortress. The soul of the imprisoned emperor left the body almost at once, leaving our contemporary to deal with the situation on his own. Palace intrigues between factions of the nobility help the tsar’s heir escape. He flees to abroad from the Russian Empire, where he becomes a mercenary. You can learn about what happens next by reading the book.