About the book: 2021 / A group of “polite people” mysteriously moves in time and space. From the foothills of Ingushetia it ends up in North America, and from the 21st century it ends up in the 18th century. And there, such passions are already in full swing that even the fighters of the “Student Construction Squad”, who are accustomed to everything, are dizzy. The British are waging an undeclared war with the French, and the Indians with both, as well as with each other. Which side should aliens from the future take? How can they survive in this bloody carousel? How to get to Russia, where Empress Elizaveta Petrovna reigns? Willy-nilly, “polite people” must make their choice. And they do it. Their intervention in the fighting changes the course of history. But this is just the beginning of their adventures…