The seventh volume of the series “Rendezvous with the Varangians.” In the world of Tsar Mikhail, three years passed relatively peacefully. Victory in the Russo-Japanese War and a new ruler strengthened the Russian Empire, but ahead looms the First World War. What must the tsar-reformer and his assistants do to avoid a draining war and turn defeat into victory? Read about it in this and the following books of the trilogy “War for the Straits.”