«The Varangian — the Winner» is a song. A song with the screech of metal and the roar of guns. A song for equipment, a song for tactics. A song about courage, duty, and discipline. A detailed commentary here really isn’t needed—the novel by Doignikov is literally “licked and polished” in the network down to the very bones. As Bismarck once said, “with iron and blood”? Well then, Doignikov’s book is about iron and blood. That’s how victory is made.
A group of Russian scientists carries out experiments on transferring a human psychomatrix through time. Funding is provided by a criminalized businessman whose goal is to gain the opportunity for a “retrospective” game on the stock exchange. The testing of the developed equipment is underway. In the next experiment, the donor is Vladimir Karpyshev—a 30-year-old lover of military history. Karpyshev’s psychomatrix is successfully implanted into a well-known historical figure—Vsevolod Fedorovich Rudnev, the captain of the cruiser “Varyag.” And right at that time, the eve of the Russo-Japanese War—“Varyag” stands in the ill-fated Chemulpo… Can Rudnev and Karpyshev outmaneuver such an unfortunate beginning of the war for Russia?