About the book: year / Having not achieved much in the capital, Mozhaisky, at his own peril and risk, goes to Venice, where a strange meeting of those who disappeared from Petersburg people. Accompanying Yuri Mikhailovich is Hess, who nobly decided to accompany his boss in this “undertaking” of his. But the question is: will Yuri Mikhailovich and Vadim Arnoldovich be able to achieve at least something in a foreign land, if they were not too lucky on their father’s land? Sushkin and Lieutenant Lyubimov sincerely believe in this, but they themselves, having barely escorted Mozhaisky and Hess to the station, find themselves in a situation that can only be described this way - on the brink of death!