From the Future — Into Battle. No One But Us!

"Great Russia has only two friends— the army and the navy!" And also— a “man from elsewhere” from the future who takes control of the mind of Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich long before, after he becomes Emperor Alexander III, he will utter his famous aphorism.

What is it like for a 35-year-old paratrooper, a veteran of the Chechen war, to be in the body of a reigning teenager? How to protect the future Tsar-Peacemaker from Anglo-French spies and succeed at “playing on the world chessboard,” driving him into the queen’s square? How to earn the love of Pushkin’s daughter and the right to proclaim: “While the Russian Tsar is fishing, Europe can wait!”? Very simply—we won’t go fishing with a rod; we’ll knock fish out, and not in Gatchina ponds, but on the Mississippi. And we’ll take part at the head of the “Russian Bears” brigade in the American Civil War—of course on the side of the Confederates—put the newest rifles and machine guns to the test, teach those damned Yankees a lesson, and prevent the unification of the States by strangling the American Reich in its infancy. The Russian Bear will pluck the Bald Eagle! The Russian soldier will wash his boots in the Hudson. A paratrooper from the 21st century will swap the blue beret for the Crown of the Russian Empire.