Father and son Volkoys—an engineer-chemist and a senior-year student—were transported almost a hundred years into the past due to an error by mysterious experimenters. They remember Russia’s past perfectly, and they’re ready to help: prevent, eliminate, cast away all the bad that was in the history of their native country, and help the good—develop it, accelerate it… But what if the well-known events never happened, and new ones are astonishing precisely because they are so unusual? If everything went wrong, perhaps the knowledge of the time travelers from the future isn’t needed—or maybe something can still be used.
The Volkovs didn’t give up. They grow into this new, unpredictable life. They throw themselves into work, applying everything that could prove useful for Russia. And if for the good of the Fatherland it’s necessary to stand to the end in an unequal fight, rush with a grenade under a tank, or go into hand-to-hand combat with bare hands—they are ready! Because the Motherland is one, at all times!