Petrograd, January 1915.
The adventures of the employees of the Institute of Experimental History continue.
On stage appears an employee from the Department of Soft Influence—Michel Dunouar, in this world a rotmistr Mikhail Charnovsky, suspiciously similar in appearance to the Russian supreme commander-in-chief, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich.
An experienced counterintelligence officer Lunev believes that he is the soul of a plot against the sovereign-emperor...
Charnovsky’s beloved, the mysterious lady Lais Ester, is convinced that he is endowed with some secret higher mission...
And what does Grigory Rasputin, the agents of Japanese intelligence, Lunev’s great-grandfather, and the cold-blooded killer from the city-temple Karnave—lost in the mountains of Abyssinia—think about him? It’s better not to say out loud.
But how could that prevent Michel Dunouar from carrying out his assignment?