The Reds lost the civil war, the communists came to power in Germany, and Hitler became famous as a modernist artist. Is the world really changing because of changing the places of the terms? – Dmitry Lekukh asks us. His experiment in the genre of “alternative history” is a smart, accurate and biting text and, as always, a unique style... Colonel Nikita Vorchakov was assigned to investigate the murder of a high-ranking military official, who was shot along with an entire platoon of guards. This is not just a daring crime, it is a challenge to the security of the powerful Russian Empire and personally to its Great Leader, Valentin Petrovich Kataev. The book was longlisted for the National Bestseller Award.