Heir of Two Crowns

16+ The hero has lived a long, eventful life in which there was room for both success and recognition. At 87, surrounded by children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, he was sure his path had reached its end.

But suddenly a celebrated scientist—professor, doctor of sciences, corresponding member, and an honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg—comes to in the body of a teenager: Karl Peter Ulrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, who is destined to become the Russian emperor Peter III. The future for this new body is bleak: later he will be strangled with a guard’s scarf by order of his own wife—Catherine the Great. Neither life nor death holds pleasant prospects.

Changing the course of events is almost impossible: he’s still too young, court intrigues surround him, and the duke himself is a key figure—the heir to two thrones, Russian and Swedish. For Russia, it’s practically the only option.

1742. Europe is engulfed in war; powers collide on battlefields, and the boy-duke becomes a valuable prize for many players. Can the professor and engineer get out of this deadly political whirlpool and avoid drowning in its bloody abyss?