“...- Father,” Willie answered, “I’m still very lucky... But the French have become so insolent that tomorrow you can expect them even in our quiet Altona... I must run! – Where? – Only to Russia, because only this country capable of giving me peace, only she can frighten Napoleon... So Wilhelm Struve, the son of an Altona teacher, ended up in Russia, where he began to be called Vasily Yakovlevich. Nothing had been decided about his fate yet...”