Russia of the late 19th century. The economic recovery and development of industry of the Russian Empire are adjacent to the poverty and illiteracy of the vast majority of the population... What are the possibilities of an ordinary second lieutenant of the border guard from an impoverished princely family in the provincial Czestochowa? Honestly serve and hope that the authorities and the tsar-father will not forget him. It would have been, but... Through the fault of the cataclysm, our contemporary found himself in the body of a young graduate of the First Pavlovsk Military School. How will he survive in a world that is alien to him? Will he go with the flow or take the chance to rebuild his life?