It's summer 1735. “Bironovschina” is a terrible time for the country. People disappear at night, the rack and the red-hot tongs of the executioner in the Secret Chancellery know no rest. A troubled period on the eve of the Russian-Turkish war, when a clever and enterprising man with a sword and a pistol can radically change his fate - and the fate of the country. Our contemporary Igor Gusarov finds himself in the body of the Courland baron Dietrich von Hofen, who decided to try his luck in “barbaric and wild Muscovy " Igor is ready to risk his head and undergo any tests in order to prevent the palace coup of “Petrov’s daughter” - the dissolute Elizabeth. Here and now, on the muddy banks of the young imperial capital, in the light of smoky lamps, in the ballrooms of palaces and in stuffy taverns, a new future of Russia is being forged , a new future for the whole world. If you are a true guardsman, take fate by the throat and turn the flywheel of history!