About the book: 2013 / An insurmountable obstacle arose before the flotilla of gunboats heading to Mitava. And only a retired hussar cornet can solve this problem, if necessary - come to an agreement with the devil himself!..*** Leo Tolstoy and his assistants compose “War and Peace”, thereby changing the real history... 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 cross the river for a strike...Who is better for a girl from the twenty-first century: her peer and contemporary, or an old hussar whose bride has not yet been born?..Science fiction writers create their own version of war Year 12 - it has different details, other victories and defeats, but one thing remains unchanged - loyalty to Duty and the Fatherland.