About the book: 1912 / Crypto-historical novel, compressed with the help of modern technologies to the framework of the story. The Nine, a group of Renaissance moneylenders, having turned into a world government, gets to the most vulnerable points of the last power not yet subject to them. Its resources should serve to build a new world for the chosen few. Mysterious forces are woven into the framework of real, but often little-known events. The Nine succeeds in almost everything, but figures from different eras of Russian civilization stand in its way.