Hostile Whirlwinds

World history went a different way.

In this version, there will be no First World War, no February Revolution, and no October Revolution.

The Russian squadron that set out at the end of 2012 toward the shores of Syria ended up in 1904 near Chemulpo, where the cruiser “Varyag” and the gunboat “Koreets” entered a deadly clash with the Japanese squadron. Sailors from the 21st century joined the fight against the enemy on the side of their ancestors. This intervention and the subsequent events served as the impetus not only to change the course of the Russo-Japanese War, but also to change the course of all world history. Japan was defeated, and Britain was humiliated. Russia did not join the Anglo-French alliance; together with Germany it created the Continental Alliance. There was no shameful Portsmouth Treaty, no Bloody Sunday. The emigrant Vladimir Ulyanov and the runaway exiled settler Dzhugashvili, along with the new tsar Mikhail II, build a new Russia—without yet knowing what it will become. But, as it seems to them, in this version of history there will be no First World War, no February Revolution, and no October Revolution either.