Once in October

In the year 2012, a Russian squadron under the command of Counter-Admiral Larionov put to sea near the shores of Syria, engulfed by a war with terrorism. But instead of the Mediterranean Sea of 2012, it suddenly ended up in the Baltic Sea, where October 1917 was underway. Within a few hours, the German operation “Albion” will begin, and a month later, the events that have been described as “shaking the world” will unfold—ten days of them. Meanwhile, the stage is set at Moonsund—both a heroic and, at the same time, inglorious chapter of Russian history. The Bolsheviks in Petrograd have not yet taken power, but Kerensky’s Provisional Government is already powerless and helpless. The question is not who to side with, but whom to bet on in the Bolshevik camp. How to flip the political chessboard so that a proletarian revolution doesn’t turn into a civil war, and how to stop the machinery of fratricidal slaughter from spinning out? Who will be a friend and who an enemy for young Soviet Russia? Who will guide this immense, restless country between two extremes, allowing it to avoid the worst fate? The heroes of this book made their choice—and all the subsequent events of world history went down a completely different path…