About the book: 2013 / NEW science fiction action movie from the bestselling author of "Saving Kolchak" and "The Hitman on the Throne"! What will happen to the current “mummered” Cossacks if they find themselves in the past, in the bloody hell of the Civil War? Today they call themselves “cornets” and “atamans”, flaunt in Cossack uniforms, with blunt sabers and homemade nogays, but the people dubbed them “asphalt” Cossacks, and the real villagers are considered impostors who can neither ride a horse nor properly shoot , not to mention wielding a blade. And so a couple of such “mummers” fall into Dauria in 1920, into the very thick of the Civil War - first to the Reds, straight into the torture chamber of the Cheka, then to the Whites, who immediately recognize the “arrivals” as “EMPLANED COSSACKS” and strive to put them against the wall, and then to the legendary Baron Ungern, who received the nickname “The Raven of Daur” for his mercilessness - he loves to listen at night to the screams of prisoners buried in the steppe up to their necks to be devoured by cannibal dogs…