About the book: 2009 / The dilogy of the popular science fiction writer Alexander Gromov is written in the genre of alternative history and “alternative geography”. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, Imperial Russia, a prosperous patriarchal state, occupies a leading place in world politics, vying for global influence with Great Britain, France, Germany and other developed European powers. But there is simply no America - neither North nor South: one huge ocean stretches from the western to the eastern borders of Eurasia. Count Nikolai Nikolaevich Lopukhin, a secret agent of the Third Section, receives a personal order from the emperor to accompany the heir to the throne on an official visit to Japan. During the voyage, Lopukhin manages to uncover an international conspiracy to eliminate the heir. Now all that remains is to thwart the plans of the attackers - on the high seas, without the support of the Russian fleet, under the guns of the Icelandic pirates, who have the latest invulnerable super battleship. Contents: Icelandic map (novel) Russian lasso (novel)