The powerful King of France Louis XI, nicknamed the World Spider for his cunning and meanness, is defeated. Alexander Lemeshev, a fencing coach, by the will of fate abandoned in the body of Jean d'Armagnac, the illegitimate son of Count Jean V d'Armagnac, one of the last feudal rulers by God's grace, returns his legal title and ancestral lands. It seemed that you could calm down and rest on your laurels, but the irrepressible thirst for adventure makes Jean set off again - he goes to Grand Duke Ivan III as a great envoy from King Francis of Navarre. What awaits the bastard in the mysterious Muscovy of the fifteenth century? It turns out that it is not enough to get to snowy Moscow, you still need to manage to survive in it. Not everyone is happy about the visit of the great envoy: the powerful Hansa will do anything to reserve all trade with Russia.