The novel takes place in a parallel reality, almost indistinguishable from ours. This is probably how that reality would have developed, but, as usually happens, the human factor intervened, and luck was on the side of changing the vector of development of that reality. It so happened that fate brought four young guys together, and a happy accident, which, as a rule, comes to energetic, often ambitious people with a common dream, gave them a chance to realize all their talents and inclinations. And this, in turn, contributed to the beginning of the rapid development of first Russia, and then the rest of the world.