Alexander Afanasyev's series of books "The Burden of Empire" in the genre of military fiction describes what Russia would have looked like at the beginning of the twenty-first century, what our country would have been like, and the whole world as a whole, if there had not been a coup in 1917. The cycle includes more than twenty novels by the writer about the extraordinary adventures of a brave intelligence officer, Prince Alexander Vorontsov. In the First World War, Russia and Germany fought together, and the second was not at all. Now, in the nineties, Russia is ruled by Emperor Alexander the Fifth, and it occupies a quarter of the Earth's territory. But few people are satisfied with this...