Vasily Sergeevich Panfilov - science fiction writer, one of the most popular domestic writers of samizdat. He also writes under the pseudonym Little Sofa Tiger. Nowadays, he was engaged in extreme sports, fencing and hand-to-hand combat - and all these skills were very useful when he was abandoned two and a half centuries ago, in the era of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. Posing as a foreign aristocrat, our contemporary enters the Lancers regiment, earning the fame of one of the most formidable fighters in the Russian army. An extreme from the future will have to participate in the Seven Years War, fight near Gross-Jägersdorf and Kunesdorf and take Berlin for the first time, proving Frederick the Great right: "It is not enough to kill a Russian soldier - he must also be knocked down!"