Roman talks about the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, about what happened more than a century ago, when Russian people fought in Manchuria under the command of General Kuropatkin and other tsarist generals.... Everyone in the army was solemnly: approach the long-awaited day when we could answer to the insidious and stubborn enemy for all his encroachments on our land, for the blood he poured in Manchuria and China, trying to enslave the great Chinese people, and after him all the other peoples of Asia...