The two most mysterious campaigns of the Napoleonic wars are Egyptian and Russian. They have many things in common: the hostility of the local population, extended communications, difficult climatic conditions. Napoleon lost both wars without losing a battle. However, after Egypt, triumph and the imperial throne awaited him, and after Russia, only further decline and imminent disaster. Alexander Ostuzhev and his comrades, who have been waging a long-term struggle against the conqueror, know what Bonaparte found in the sands of Egypt and what he lost in the Russian snows. The true meaning of history is hidden from an outside observer, and the most important events sometimes take place in dungeons, located either under the Sphinx or under the Kremlin...