The destinies of two realities - ours, with all the tricks of Russian democracy, and the alternative, where Russia is a powerful Empire capable of adequately responding to the challenges of the Asian-African “Black International” - unexpectedly turn out to be much more closely intertwined than Shulgin and Novikov expected , Levashov and their comrades in the “St. Andrew’s Brotherhood”. The actions of the anti-corruption “Black Mark” in the first, which forced the president of the country to pay full attention to the proposals of this mysterious organization, and the showdown in Odessa, in the second, which attracted the attention of the Emperor, are similar to each other not only in their final goals, but also... in a composition of participants whose appearance in the “theater of possible actions” could not have been imagined. However, sometimes the impossible becomes possible, bringing with it future changes...