Another story about another misfortune. This time we ended up not in 1941 or even at the end of the 17th century, but a little later. It won’t be possible to warn Comrade Stalin, it’s too late to kill Khrushchev, the Kalashnikov assault rifle has already been invented, and Vysotsky himself performs his own songs quite well. In addition, the hero does not have Cyrus Smith’s knowledge on all issues, and for some reason the laptop with a bunch of encyclopedias did not fail with him. But the hero didn’t like the old world at all, and he still decides to change the Future. But how? Or maybe there is no need to try, straining, to turn the heavy Chariot of History with your hands? Maybe just throw a small pebble under the wheel at an important fork? Perhaps then this Chariot itself will turn away from the road leading to the Abyss, huh?..Akhtung! Unbridled propaganda of the USSR. For those who consider Solzhenitsyn not a criminal, but a writer, reading this book is strictly contraindicated.

The author expresses gratitude to his favorite writer Paul Anderson. His story “Delenda est” from the Time Patrol series gave impetus to the writing of this book. I took the idea of how the Future can be changed from this story. I admit it. The author expresses gratitude to the person who signed himself as Nikolay Nadoumov. His work in collecting and processing errors and typos discovered by readers greatly helped in writing the second version of the book. The author expresses gratitude to all readers who were not too lazy to point out errors and inaccuracies in the text in their comments.

Changes in the second edition Regarding the first: dozens of errors and typos have been corrected; cosmetic changes throughout the text; some historical inaccuracies have been corrected; added chapter 48; the epilogue and the last chapter were partially rewritten; a second epilogue has been added.