About the book: 2011 / What is happening in the Russian Empire in nineteen fourteen, two years after the victory in the world war? What problems are facing its people? And before the authorities? And in front of those who really don’t like this government? Neither Alexander Kobzev, a senior laboratory assistant at one of the academic institutes in Moscow, nor Viktor Kissin, a member of the party bureau of the same institute, ever asked themselves such questions. But it happens that answers to the unspoken come despite our desire..