The worst curse the Chinese have is: “May you live in times of change!” If so, the entire Chinese people clearly cursed Kirill Nikolayev. The bourgeoisie Nikolayev didn’t have time to wriggle out of trouble with an etheric-club and fend off threats from former relatives, as new troubles immediately piled on. A rebellion in the capital of a recently quiet Russian state sweeps people up like a hurricane flings leaves and carries them through smoke and fires toward a grand catastrophe. Caterpillar tracks roar over ancient cobblestones, explosions thunder in the night, and houses burn. Noble and service boyars cut each other down with relish, sparing nothing, recruiting European mercenaries to their side and throwing their own дружини into the attack. And amid all this madness, Kirill spins like a squirrel in a wheel, trying to protect his loved ones and, at the same time, not get pulled into the clashes between boyars and the ruler.