1905, the Russo-Japanese War comes to an end, and a revolution is brewing in Russia. Japanese intelligence prepared its agents from captured Poles, and returned them to their homeland along with other prisoners of war. This became known to the Police Department. Lykov, together with the gendarmes, was instructed to identify and arrest the spies. During the inquiry, he learns about a group of former soldiers who united to fight tsarism. Their leader is Private Nikolai Kunitsyn, who received the nickname Kolka-kun in captivity. A charismatic personality, fearless, having seen a lot, he invented his own model of a state where peasants will rule.