All of Middle Asia submitted to Russian arms, and only in the hard-to-reach Akhal-Teke oasis they’re in no hurry to recognize the power of the Russian tsar. A year earlier, General Lomakin’s expedition ended in a crushing failure, and now only Skobelev—who until then had never known defeat—can fix the situation. The famed White General gathers troops on the border of the Empire to end the raider enclave with one decisive blow.
And among the many soldiers and officers is our contemporary, thrown into the past by the will of fate and now trying to survive in a world alien to him.