The adventures of the former physics teacher Ivan Yakovlevich Brecht, who fell into the body of a young guy from a small village near Omsk, continue again. In 1932. In the fourth book, Brecht loses his regiment and ends up first in one neighboring country, and then in another not even neighboring one. Before that, he will have to fight a little more in the Far East. It's 1936, the times of Yagoda and Yezhov and, of course, the purge of the Red Army are approaching. How will Colonel Brecht survive these difficult times.