General march is a signal to march. The River of Time has changed its course. The quiet year of 1923 ends violently. Units of the Strategic Reserve attack Gorki, the residence of the terminally ill Leader. An embassy is moving through war-torn China to deliver a message from the Council of People's Commissars to the mysterious Pachang. A small, inconspicuous Technical Group gradually takes control of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. And only people still remain “wheels and cogs”, whose lives are the bargaining chip of the powerful. Not everyone agrees to remain silent and agree. The colonel's daughter Olga Zotova, risking herself, tries to find out about the fate of her colleague who disappeared without a trace. The history of Russia is again at a crossroads - in order to prevent Stalin from coming to power, another Stalin was needed... Andrei Valentinov’s new book, part of the famous “Eye of Power” cycle, a continuation of the novel “Tsar-Cosmos”, tells the story of a secret history hidden from us XX century. The fates of different, dissimilar people - Stalin and Kuibyshev, Mehlis and Baron Ungern, Maria Ulyanova and Marusya Klimova - are intertwined in a tight knot.