About the book: year / It’s good to be a friend of Brezhnev - ice cream, girls, songs... It’s good to be a friend of Stalin - a turret, a cartridge, songs... Good to be a stranger to Nicholas - factories, reconnaissance, songs... Even to Grozny, nothing like that - guns, oprichnina, the Urals... And what is it like for those who thundered at the beginning of the 15th century? There are enemies all around. You can't get to the Urals. There are no factories, guns or cartridges. There is definitely no ice cream. Why, there aren’t even potatoes and tomatoes! People - the cat cried. And the songs are completely different. And yet... the inter-author project “Birth of an Empire”"