After the souls of our contemporaries were transferred into the bodies of Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich and his secretary, Johnson, the story—as the boys thought—kept unfolding the way they knew it. No matter what our contemporaries did, the wheel of history continued to roll along a trajectory that would be fatal for them. All this made the boys act more persistently and aggressively.
If earlier young scientists had tried to be extremely careful in interfering with historical processes and to affect people of that era as little as possible, now everything changed. They themselves became people of that time and simply did everything to survive and ensure a happy future—not only for themselves, but for others as well.