Everyone knows him as Captain Kunitsin—the man who can not only work real miracles, but also teach others to do the same. And the greatest of these miracles is to win where victory seems impossible. To go all the way. To successfully stand up against the elite units of the Wehrmacht, which, in the terrible summer of 1941, were desperately trying to reach the very heart of the Soviet Union.
His real name is Arseniy Alexandr Rei. He is the Emperor’s guardsman from a world of a far-off future. His goal is to help his new Homeland not only end the most terrible war in human history with the minimum possible losses, but also become a true Empire. And to do that, one must first of all create a new elite of society—those whose main and only goal is service to their country and its people. The elite of elites.