It would seem that it is no longer possible to come up with anything new and original in the genre of a military-science-fiction action film about “misfits,” but the author of the best-selling book “Anti-Gunner” succeeded! In his new novel, an inexplicable time anomaly transfers a platoon of T-34 tanks with a landing force from the victorious year of 1945 40 years ago, into the thick of the Russo-Japanese War, at the height of the Battle of Mukden. Do you think everything will be like in Stalin’s victory marches? “Thundering with fire, sparkling with the brilliance of steel, the machines will go on a furious march”? “And the samurai flew to the ground under the pressure of steel and fire”? But of the three “thirty-fours”, two are not operational, they can barely be evacuated from under the noses of the Japanese, the third was left without shells and diesel fuel, and ammunition, spare parts and fuels and lubricants are completely absent. Not to mention the fact that tank crews and paratroopers from the future, brought up in hatred of the “damned tsarist regime,” are not averse to “pummeling the gold-chasing bastard” on occasion...Will the Stalinist grandchildren be able to find a common language with their “loyal subjects” grandfathers, so that together beat the common enemy? Are the tsarist generals able to master the new “miracle weapon”, and the pre-revolutionary industry - to organize the production of tanks, even if not as advanced as the T-34-85? Will the Russian Empire, warned of the impending catastrophe, have time to prepare for the First World War and prevent the tragedy of 1917?