How to achieve an ethical planetary goal? For example, how to kill the desire to kill in people? Inventing a special serum or special radiation is only the first and easiest of a thousand steps. The remaining nine hundred and ninety-nine are the path to using a pacifying agent. And some futurologists found out that at one of these necessary steps, in a certain year of the eighteenth century, it was necessary to destroy a certain country. It’s even scary to say which one. How to ruin it? Send Sasha Egorova. Who is Sasha Egorov? This is still a mystery, although he is not the main character, but only the narrator, the author of a report in the manner of a “lab assistant” about the work done. But will the “misfit” agree with what happened in the eighteenth century and in the future? On the cover: Valery Budaragin’s painting “St. Petersburg, 2017.”