Revenge. Sweet words for someone who has lost a loved one and doesn’t expect gifts from corrupt justice. A former officer of military counterintelligence of Ukraine’s Security Service decided to punish the killers himself—and carried out a massacre according to all the rules of the art of war. But the system doesn’t forgive that kind of thing. Trapped in the mountains of Crimea, a fugitive who won’t reveal the army friends who helped him in the act of “holy justice” throws himself into the abyss—yet fate, or the Slavic gods, laughing, decided to give him a second chance.
Now he is an officer of the Separate Corps of Gendarmes of the Russian Empire, and it is the year 1853. Very soon, an Anglo-French band gathered across Europe, supported by the Turks, will attack the Motherland—and besieged Sevastopol will flare up…