Alexander Shulgin—and then Andrey Novikov hoped that the дуггурры, a clash with which in one of the alternate realities nearly cost Shulgin his life, would remain only an episode in their adventurous fate. But it turns out to be far more serious, and the possibilities of new enemies are significantly more diverse. A real threat appears: capture of Earth by the дуггурры of the Main Historical Sequence, and the termination of its further existence. The Andreev Brotherhood starts fighting again in time and space. Now its field becomes South Africa of the late 19th century. And not by chance: the Anglo-Boer War that flared there then—about which our contemporaries know, at best, from the novels of Conan Doyle and Bussenar—has much greater significance for the future than merely being an episode in British colonial politics…