To find yourself in 1917 in the body of a sailor—an exceptional chance that happens only once. A scientist from the future understands what the revolution will lead to and decides to intervene.
A prominent Soviet scholar—mathematician and electronics specialist Andrei Kotov—dies in 2005.
And he comes to consciousness already in Petrograd, in the body of a young anarchist sailor, Viktor Zheleznjakov, just a few days before the Great October Revolution. Ahead lies the nightmare of the Civil War.
Through his older brother, Anatolij Zheleznjakov, a member of the Center Baltic Fleet (Tsentrobalт), he gains the opportunity to get an audience with V. I. Lenin. Now he must try to change the course of history…