Engineer from the 21st century San Sanych Smolyaninov, who became Tsarevich Alexander, did not at all seek to take the post of emperor. The throne was to be taken by the elder brother Nikolai. But after the almost simultaneous death of his father - Alexander III - and his brother, he had to take responsibility for Russia. And it turned out that it was not in vain that he shied away from the authorities - to begin with, it took forever to part with his beloved woman and marry his unloved one. And then quite a large number of people from various walks of life passionately wanted to see the emperor in an ornate coffin. And what should he do? After all, there are no plans, no sufficient number of faithful people, no... but nothing, in essence, no! There is only, as happened in a past life, reliance on the saying "eyes are afraid, but hands are doing"!