An engineer from the 21st century, San Sanych Smolyaninov, who became Tsarevich Alexander, did not at all aspire to take the position of emperor. The throne was to be taken by the elder brother Nikolai. But after the almost simultaneous death of his father - Alexander III - and brother, he had to take responsibility for Russia. And it turned out that it was not for nothing that he shunned power - first he had to part with the woman he loved forever and marry an unloved one. And then quite a large number of people from various walks of life passionately desired to see the emperor in a richly decorated coffin. So what should he do? After all, there are no plans, no sufficient number of faithful people, no... nothing, in essence, nothing! There is only, as happened in a past life, hope in the saying “the eyes are afraid, but the hands do”!