Fifteen years ago, the consciousness, soul or matrix of the guard of retired lieutenant colonel Alenin Timofey Vasilyevich was somehow transferred from 2018 to 1888, to the body of fourteen-year-old Cossack Timokha Alenin from the village of Chernyaev of the Amur Cossack army. During this time, our hero went the hard way from a Cossack shepherd to lieutenant colonel of the General Staff and head of the Analytical Center under the Russian Emperor. The new service prevented several attempts on the emperor, defeated and destroyed the conspirators who were trying to carry out a new guards coup under the command of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich. At the suggestion of the main character, a unit of combat swimmers appeared in the Naval Department of the Russian Empire, who had already noted in the confrontation between Russia and England, drowning two British squadron battleships. The war with Japan, and possibly England, is inevitable, and the Alenin-Zeya emperor has been given a very difficult task...