Further development of the Cortes series. The life and adventures of the Don Cossack Ivan Platov, who found himself at the wrong time in the wrong place.... Ivan Platov was no exception, looking enviously at the large sea plows. Soon they will leave for the Turkish and Crimean shores, and he will stay here again. They still don't want to take him on a campaign, there are plenty of more experienced Cossacks. By and large, Ivan himself understood this. The fact that he is good at shooting everything that shoots - from onions to rifle squeaks, this does not make him a good fighter yet. You can shoot as many times as you have charged trunks, after which all hope is only for a good blade. And all the Cossacks are sure that in a saber battle he will not survive for a long time against an adult and experienced Janissary. That for years it was small that the heroic article did not come out. Unless... But about this his teacher, Cossack Matvey Kolyuzhny, ordered to be silent like a fish. The less they know about him, the better...