People in the past. Russia. Late 19th century. Revolutions have not yet thundered, Alexander III is alive, Leo Tolstoy has already written War and Peace, and Rudolf Diesel has not yet patented his engine... The main character, succumbing to the persuasion of a friend, buys a house in the old part of Krasnodar. According to the law of the hit genre, he opens a time portal in 1887. The October Revolution is still thirty years away. There is time to change something and change in the history of the country.