From Kustanai 202x to St. Petersburg in 1904... In general, in the prehistory of this action there was a dispute in the comments to one gorgeous work, there was the Russian-Japanese War, the fleet, Rozhdestvensky’s squadron and the Battle of Tsushima. And the “promise” for me to write my vision. I accepted the challenge and tried to write the way, in my opinion, a simple person would spin if he got it. Almost without “pianos” and almost without knowledge of the history of that time. But somehow it seemed wrong to me to immediately send my own man onto the ships of the squadron, so he ended up in the original source of all events. And then everything didn’t go as I originally planned. He categorically did not want to join the navy and resisted me as best he could. And I didn’t want to be a hero. I wanted comfort, money, love, women, silence, and somehow it turned out strange - I wanted to go home. As a result, the Russian Empire of 1904 and what happened, happened.