“Oh, the West is the West, the East is the East, and they will not leave their places until Heaven and Earth appear at the Last Judgment of the Lord…. But there is no East, and there is no West, that tribe, homeland, clan. If the strong stand face to face with the strong at the ends of the earth?”40s of an alternative reality in which Tsarist Russia faces the cold and cynical West. There is a Cold War going on in the East, sometimes turning into a real one - with explosions in the streets and shelling of cities. The British and the Russians are fighting for the future of this world - and what difference does it make who wins? The main thing is that this world has a future. In the Radfan Mountains, a gang attacks a caravan, leaving a Russian doctor who turns out to be a secret Bolshevik to be alive. This is the true beginning of the Idarat movement - bandits from just robbers become ideological terrorists.