Peter the Great's Saboteur

16+ Warning! The book is narrated by a SpeechKit speech recognition and synthesis program.

A picture from a backwoods museum that turned out to be a portal sent Denis Antonov hundreds of years into the past—to the era of Peter the Great—placing him in the guise of a barefoot boy, Alexashka Menshikov. In searching for a way home, he plunged headfirst into a pit of cruel trials, becoming a reliable adviser and a true friend to the future Russian emperor. With Denis’s light hand, rapid-fire muskets appeared in the Russian army, and tear-gas grenades became part of it. Part of the navy also gained a formidable ironclad with a battery of powder rockets onboard. He is granted the rank of lieutenant of the Preobrazhensky Regiment and promised a title. It seemed that fate itself favored him. But a cursed painting appears again on his path…