The situation is quite standard for the fantastic genre of “alternative history”: the consciousness of our man - of all the “pianos”, who has only two years of educational “training” behind him, the education of a Soviet engineer and the experience of an entrepreneur surviving in the “dashing 90s” , in the body of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II - who has just accepted the burden of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. “Standard situation” requires non-standard decisions from the main character: can he not only survive himself - but also save Russia from sliding into the chaos of revolution and a bloody meat grinder civil massacre? So, it’s August 23, 1915 - the time of the “Great Retreat” of the Russian Imperial Army...