He is the greatest statesman in Russian history, an impossible but honest man who did much for the Fatherland—and could have done even more. He is Speransky. And in the future, Nadezhdin dies as well—a soldier of the state, but in a slightly different capacity. And then a new person appears.
It’s the end of the Catherine era, and the new person bursts into it. Here you’d follow the rule: don’t harm, don’t make things worse than the body you’ve taken over, along with part of the consciousness. But are we, those who are thrown into other worlds, looking for easy paths? No—we just want the world to turn upside down…