The Japanese Policeman

In 1891 in Japan, a policeman named Tsuda Sanzo attempted to assassinate Tsarevich Nicholas, heir to the Russian imperial throne. The assassination attempt failed, but from that moment on the former "Japanese policeman" became a soldier in a secret war, carrying out the orders of unknown masters.
A mysterious object called "Cricket" leads the samurai Tsuda Sanzo along dangerous roads. He travels to Russia, where he stages a provocation at Khodynka Field, blows up the battleship Petropavlovsk, saves the seriously ill wife of Ulyanov-Lenin, and infiltrates the ranks of the Bolshevik party. The samurai does not know why he does all this — but it doesn't matter, for the Cricket, which brings luck in wicked deeds, decides everything for him.
At the same time, the poet and traveler Nikolai Gumilev receives from an old man he saved in Abyssinia an object called "Scorpion." The talisman protects him in the wilds of Africa, and Gumilev begins to suspect that the Scorpion's purpose is to help good and just people.
Grigory Rasputin gives Nicholas II a figurine of a Cat that allows him to see the future.
Meanwhile, the terrible shadow of the First World War and its offspring — the Revolution of 1917 — is closing in on the world. The decisive clash between the Cricket and the Scorpion is yet to come…