Do what you must, and come what may. Even if everything has changed. Even if History itself has changed its course and is carrying the guide to God knows where. Even if the guide is now as blind as those whom he leads somewhere. Second half of the nineteenth century. The damned and forgiven official from our time, who has inhabited the body of the head of the Tomsk province, has nothing left to do. Just do what he has to do and hope that it will lead him to success and not to the chopping block. Moreover, both options are quite possible.