About the book: 2017 / Russia at the end of the 19th century. The economic recovery and industrial development of the Russian Empire coexist with poverty and illiteracy of the vast majority of the population... What are the opportunities for an ordinary second lieutenant of the border guard from an impoverished princely family in provincial Częstochowa? Serve honestly and hope that his superiors and the Tsar-Father will not forget him. It would have been so, but... Due to the cataclysm, our contemporary found himself in the body of a young graduate of the First Pavlovsk Military School. How will he survive in a world that is alien to him? Will he go with the flow or take the chance to rebuild his life??