About the book: 2016 / On the eve of 1797, an officer of the courier regiment of Her Imperial Majesty Catherine Second Lieutenant Alexander Egorov, by the will of an evil chance, became a deserter. He fled to America, where, again by bad luck, he sat out the Russian-Persian War and the war with Napoleon. And the evil case was a huge emerald stone, which, by the grace of the powers that be, moved across countries and continents. Russian officer Alexander Egorov felt great guilt for his involuntary desertion for the sake of a green stone and promised himself to atone for his guilt before his Motherland. And he redeemed it! True Russian officer!