The second book in the “Fitting and Cleaver” series. No one is given the opportunity to know their fate, and Platon Rutsky is no exception. Could he, an ordinary paramedic, have imagined that an ambulance's departure to a road accident would end in transporting him to the summer of 1812? However, it happened, like so many other things. Retreat as part of a company of rangers of Bagration's 2nd Western Army, the battle of Krasnoye and Smolensk, blood, death, roads, dust and fog... And now Second Lieutenant Rutsky from a separate battalion of mounted rangers is preparing for a battle that will later be recognized as one of the bloodiest in the 19th century . Borodino... How to survive in this meat grinder, and even positively influence the history familiar to Plato? After all, he has already succeeded in something...