The very beginning of 1918—when all the fateful events have already happened, but their outcome hasn’t been decided yet. On the Western Front the fierce slaughter continues, while in the east there is a fragile lull accompanied by intense wrangling over peace negotiations in Brest-Litovsk. The Entente has already rejected the proposal for a universal “just peace” without annexations and indemnities, after which Lenin instructed the conclusion of a separate peace. But within the Bolshevik Party there are different opinions on this matter: a significant majority in the Central Committee supports conducting a “revolutionary” war against Germany. And exactly at this moment, into the unfortunate peace—already pregnant with the rampage of the most unbridled violence across one-sixth of the globe—arrives the Artan prince Seregin. His task is to calm the rampaging demons of revolution and counterrevolution and guide Russia and all the local humanity down the better path.