Fleeing from the aliens, Shurka and Lera went 220 years into the past. Looking around, the friends realized that they had found themselves during the reign of Catherine the Second. On the site of their hometown was a district town of the Russian Empire. The boys had to call themselves nobles: Shurka as Prince Zakharyevsky, and Lerke as Count Lerkendorf. The newly-minted lords explained their ignorance of local laws and customs by the fact that they arrived from London. At first, the friends stayed at the estate of the landowner Pereverzev. They stayed for a day or two, and then his wife Fyokla Fenetsianovna suddenly fell in love with Prince Alexander. Meanwhile, Shurka himself took a liking to the serf girl Varya. And she liked her so much that he made her Princess Zalesskaya and saved her from certain death. But Lerka almost ruined everything when he unexpectedly turned into a landowner, and so bloodthirsty that... But it’s better to learn about this from the story itself. There is a lot more there: a duel with pistols, a ball in the Assembly of the Nobles, and even a battle with Napoleonic invaders.