At the direction of Empress Ekaterina Alekseevna, Karl Firle, the fanz, keeper of the royal treasures, and his son Yakov accompanied the convoy with jewelry from the imperial “rentere”. Dashing people attacked them on the road. Only the “chieftains” of these robbers are not simple: the Saxon jeweler Goldman and retired corporal Friedrich Lemmer. They were identified later in St. Petersburg by both Karl and Yakov. And the desperate Lemmer even took it upon himself to humiliate Yakov! Duel with swords - there is no other option! Only what awaits the winner is not the glory and admiration of beauties, but the imperial dungeons... And Michel Firfantsev, in the troubled years of the Civil War, was also forced to fight with the plunderers of the state treasury. His life is generally difficult: either he will end up in a Finnish prison, or he will end up in a Polish concentration camp. And the treasures of the sovereign’s “renter” worth a billion royal rubles have still not been found. It seems that Firfantsev went on the trail of the missing jewels, and they again melted away like smoke... And in our time, Michel-Gerhard von Stoltz, aka Mishka Shutov, is looking for traces of the same treasures. Just without much luck. More precisely, on the contrary, with a lot of troubles: he was accused of murdering Academician Anokhin-Zentovich, the police are “pressuring” him and threatening him quite specifically. In general, no matter what you say, life in Russia has always been difficult for honest detectives!