Under the Sign of Amur. Battle for the Amur

How will the battle for the Amur end?

Wolves lie in wait for Muravyov and his associates at every step. Wolves in the guise of the French emperor and the head of his intelligence service, the prime minister of Great Britain and English agents, the Russian chancellor and minister of war—wolves in masks of schemers and informers, haters and loafers. Attacks can be expected from any side—and how can one not become furious? But there are forces arrayed against them—both at the Russian imperial court and in a Cossack family. And these forces are fueled by love.

Nevyelsky and his companions, despite a half-starved existence, conduct studies of the lands of the Lower Amur; their wives help establish contact with the local population. Muravyov is concerned with the defense of Kamchatka, because he is sure that England is preparing a war against Russia in order to seize the Amur; he obtains an order to transfer peasants attached to mountain works into the free Cossack estate, and creates the Transbaikal Cossack Host. And everywhere beside him is his faithful Ketrin.

But they do not know that Henri Dubois has lost his wife, poisoned by a letter “from General Muravyov,” and has gone to the Amur to take revenge.