Do what you must, and whatever will be, will be. Even if everything has changed. Even if History itself has changed course and brings a guide to some unknown place. Even if the guide is now just as blind as those whom he leads somewhere…
The second half of the nineteenth century. The accursed and pardoned official from our time who has inhabited the body of the head of the Tomsk province has nothing left to do but carry out what he must and hope that it will lead him to success rather than the block. Especially since both outcomes are entirely possible.