The Second Russo-Japanese War began. For three years, the Popatan emperor Michael II prepared for her. Much has been done, stocks have been created, troops have been deployed, new weapons have been developed. But the Japanese did not sit idle either. The war did not start very well for Russia. Japan dominates the sea, Korea and the Liaodong Peninsula are turned into impregnable fortresses, South Sakhalin bristles with tools in concrete casemates. Captured the south of Kamchatka and even landed troops in Chukotka. The rear is full of enemy saboteurs, and it is not so easy for Russians to supply their group in Manchuria. So, on the street in mid-October 1921. Bright holiday of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Emperor-Popan in Chita. Empress Masha in Moscow, and sister Olga rules in Constantinople. The empire has just survived a terrible drought, which in our reality killed millions of people. Reforms. War. Intrigue. Conspiracies...