Autumn 1918. Wars in Europe. The Spanish flu pandemic is raging in the world, abundantly collecting its terrible harvest. Tens of millions dead and dead. There is a terrible hunger ahead. Everything in the country hung in a shaky balance. But then Mikhail II becomes infected with the "Spanish flu" and leaves the stage while dying in the Kremlin. Formally, all power is now in the hands of the seventeen-year-old Empress Maria, but she is isolated on a distant island in the Sea of ​ ​ Marmara, and none of the interested persons is going to give the former Italian princess real power. Empire on the eve of disaster and the Civil War. Will it be possible to turn the tide? After all, events are developing too rapidly...