After the Second Battle of the Shahe River and the naval battle of Elliot, the Russo-Japanese War turned around. The Japanese fleet is at the bottom, the army is defeated. It took only two weeks for the Grand Duke of Artan Seregin to throw the land of the Rising Sun from the premonition of an imminent victory into the abyss of inevitable defeat. But this is not the end, but only the beginning of a big game. Emperor Nicholas, abdicating, gives his brother a country far from in the best condition. How will Seregin help the young emperor Mikhail cope with the pre-revolutionary situation in Russia and at the same time repel the advances of other major world powers who want to weaken and humiliate Russia? Will he be able to find a common language with the healthy part of the revolutionary movement and explain to the representatives of the ruling classes who have become ingrained in their arrogance that it is no longer possible to live like this?