One cannot enter the same water twice. So the ancients said…
He swore allegiance to the Russian emperor. And he remained true to his oath. He bravely fought for Russia in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. But he refused to swear allegiance to the Bolsheviks and ended up first with the Whites, and then in exile.
All his friends turned away from him when they learned that in 1935 he went to serve the recent enemies. But the former Wrangel officer, captain of the first rank Mikhail Korf, and now—an active frigate captain in the fleet of Hitler’s Germany, Michel Korf, has serious reasons for it. No one knows his secret. He is waiting for the right moment—and then he will be able to return to the past, forty years earlier, on a cold October day in 1902, when an amazing meeting dramatically changed his fate. And he will have the chance to live his life again. And attempt to keep Russia from turning onto that disastrous road that once already led it to catastrophe. One cannot enter the same water twice. But trying is worth it…