Yermak. The Regent

Japan surrendered in the Russo-Japanese War. While British forces advanced into Russian Turkestan, they were isolated from British India due to an Afghan uprising that proclaimed Ismail Khan—supporting Russia—as the new Emir of Afghanistan. Cities in Turkish Armenia—Sasun, Oltu, Sarykamish, Kagisman, and Igdir—are preparing to rise, which will complicate the Ottoman Empire’s participation in the war on Britain’s side. Meanwhile, an unknown person kills Emperor Nicholas II, and the regent, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, urgently calls Timofey Vasilyevich Alenin-Zeysky from Russian Turkestan to Saint Petersburg, where a political intrigue surrounding the young Alexander IV is brewing.