A modern Russian lawyer who loves to defend liberals, leftists and anarchists finds himself in the body of the thirteen-year-old Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich - the second son of the All-Russian Emperor Alexander Nikolaevich (that is, Alexander II). And he would show off his erudition from the twenty-first century, but it turns out that He, like the last shopkeeper, barely knows French and does not know German at all, and is absolutely incapable of writing with this terrible quill pen. And he would like to take up progress, but the tutors are watching his every step, and the life doctor doubts his mental health. And the sovereign is not at all as liberal as we would like... How would the history of Russia have changed if Alexander the Third had turned out not to be a dull conservative who fell under the influence of the power-hungry Pobedonostsev, but a man of completely different views, knowledge and experience?