History is like a fast-flying train, on the way of which every now and then there are switches. If you turn down one path, you will reach the station; if you turn onto another, you will fly downhill. December 1825, the Decembrist uprising is one of the most important forks in history. We all know how events unfolded. But we don’t know what would have happened if the Decembrists had won. And one correct order, one decisive act, one well-aimed shot - and everything would have gone the other way. So it went differently... Lieutenant Nikolai Kleopin found himself in the very epicenter of events. And, like everyone else, he found himself at a bloody crossroads: to betray, change his oath, join the ranks of those who won and unleashed the civil war, or run and hide? Or maybe... start your own guerrilla war? The rift was not only in the fate of Lieutenant Kleopin. He walked through the house of the Romanovs, and through the destinies of Pestel, Ryleev, Speransky, Ermolov, Pushkin and many, many others. Everyone will now have a new destiny, everyone will have a new war...