Saved by Fedor Godunov, in front of the Moscow public he publicly renounces the throne in favor of his sister’s fiancé—the eighteen-year-old Prince Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky, whom Seregin installs on the throne. But that wasn’t enough to open the path to the nineteenth century, and Seregin receives a mission to stabilize the world of the dying Emperor Peter II. No Anna Ioannovna and no Biron. Russia after the reforms of Peter I must be given the opportunity for uninterrupted, forward development without turmoil and catastrophes. The cover art uses a painting from the “Moscow Kremlin 1800” series.