Uhlan: Dance on the Blade's Edge

In our time he trained in extreme sports, fencing, and hand-to-hand combat—and all these skills proved very useful when he was thrown back two and a half centuries, to the era of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. Posing as a foreign aristocrat, our contemporary joins an uhlan regiment, earning a reputation as one of the most formidable fighters in the Russian army. For the extreme sportsman from the future, the Seven Years’ War awaits: he will fight under Gross-Egersdorf and Kunersdorf, and for the first time he will take Berlin—proving the correctness of Frederick the Great’s words: “A Russian soldier is not only killed—he must also be laid flat!”