Russia at the beginning of the 19th century, three years before the Patriotic War. The main character, Lieutenant of the Life Guards Cavalry Regiment Dmitry Alabin, commits a rash act in the name of love, which leads him to hard labor. But Alabin does not want to come to terms with reality and die in the prime of life in harsh Siberia. He comes up with a daring plan to reach England, where his beloved Countess Ekaterina Razumovskaya-Stone now lives, but not through Europe, but through... Asia! Alabin escapes with like-minded people. But dangerous adventures await the hero: rafting down a mountain river, traveling to different countries, seas and oceans; skirmishes with soldiers, aborigines, bandits and pirates; shipwreck, captivity and other twists and turns of fate. Step by step, Dmitry Alabin is approaching his cherished goal - a meeting with Countess Katerina Razumovskaya-Stone. But will the officer meet his beauty - that is the question! For all lovers of the adventure genre - an entertaining novel by O. Mazurin.