Artem Kuprin—born and raised in the provincial town of Torzhok—had dreamed since childhood of becoming a famous person. Preparing for that, Artem tortured himself with training and crammed foreign languages.
But after serving in the army, the joke of God carried him far away from his hometown and familiar time—onto the Caribbean Sea coastline, right at the very beginning of the 18th century.
Who can he become: a celebrated naval commander, a cruel pirate, or an ordinary merchant? It depends not only on him…