About the book: 2013 / The intelligence services of the future are trying to change the course of the Patriotic War of 1812, influencing Barclay de Tolly Leo Tolstoy and his assistants compose "War and Peace", the thereby changing the real story...Russian flywheels from the air attack Ney's runaway carts near Smolensk...The hussar sits down to play cards with the devil, and the bet is to let the gunboats pass along the river for a strike...Who is better for a girl from the twenty-first century: her peer and contemporary, or the old one hussar, whose bride has not yet been born?.. Science fiction writers create their own version of the War of the Twelfth Year - it has different details, different victories and defeats, but one thing remains the same - loyalty to Duty and the Fatherland.