The truce with Turkey dragged on for a whole year and did nothing. A peace treaty between the warring parties was not concluded. All the contradictions between the empires had to be resolved not under the creak of feathers on paper, but under the roar of rifle volleys and the screeching of buckshot. Lieutenant Egorov has a team of elite Russian shooters - gamekeepers at hand. Will they help the Motherland put a winning point in the First Turkish or will it continue to thunder on the banks of the Danube?