Corsairs of Nicholas the First

The middle of the nineteenth century. Russia is the strongest power in the world. Strong powers are not loved—and when they gather, they are beaten by the crowd. That’s exactly how the Crimean War began. In truth, that war ended in a draw, but the enemy had the most destructive weapon— the press. It was journalists who managed to convince the whole world, including Russia itself, that Russia lost. And it was this belief that became the first little stone that set off an avalanche. In less than seventy years, it will bury the Great Continental Empire. But what if, among officers who dutifully carry out orders, someone is found for whom the law is not written? What if the aggressors run into those who don’t fight them only out of duty, but look at the “civilized” Europeans the way a predator looks at prey? That is exactly what those who decided to bring the light of civilization to “Russian barbarians” will have to feel firsthand.