A brilliant retired naval officer suddenly finds himself in 18th-century Russia. The life he observes does not in every way correspond to the ideas he learned from Soviet textbooks. Sergei quickly realizes that he has enormous wealth - 21st century technical knowledge and more than two hundred years of human experience, which no one else has here. As a result, he manages to become a successful industrialist and banker, a hero-lover and a wise serf owner, a subtle politician and the main adviser to Catherine the Great. Life in Russia is transformed with the appearance of a mysterious captain. But Sergei’s main goal is pirate voyages...