About the book: 2011 / Fleeing from aliens, Shurka and Lera went 220 years into the past. Looking around, the friends realized that they were in the reign of Catherine II. In place of their hometown was a district town of the Russian Empire. The boys had to call themselves nobles: Shurka - Prince Zakharyevsky, and Lerke - Count Lerkendorf. The newly-minted lords explained their ignorance of local laws and customs by saying that they arrived from London. At first, the friends were visiting the estate of the landowner Pereverzev. They stayed for a day or two, and then his wife Fyokla Fenetsianovna suddenly fell in love with Prince Alexander. Meanwhile, Shurka himself took a liking to the serf girl Varya. And she liked her so much that he made her Princess Zalesskaya and saved her from certain death. But Lerka almost ruined everything when he unexpectedly turned into a landowner, and so bloodthirsty that... But it’s better to learn about this from the story itself. There is a lot more there: a pistol duel, a ball in the Assembly of Nobility, and even a battle with Napoleonic invaders.