In this novel, for the first time, an attempt was made to cancel this unnatural luck, rewrite the past, replay the Russo-Japanese War - now in our favor. How would the history of the 20th century change if the Varangian emerged victorious from battle? Could the Japanese supply their land group, if the Russian cruisers acted on their communications? How would the siege of Port Arthur have ended then? And who would win the decisive war that predetermined the future of Russia?