Our contemporary hated the communists all his life because they repressed his parents in the 1930s. On his father's deathbed, he vowed to take revenge on the hated regime. At the end of a long and eventful life, which began with a “basement rocking chair” and ended with a powerful business empire, he regretted only one thing. The fact that the promise given to his father remained unfulfilled. How to take revenge on those who are no longer there? And fate gave him a chance to get even. At the moment of death, the consciousness of our contemporary will be mixed into the head of Alexander Dmitrievich Protopopov, the last and most hated Minister of Internal Affairs in the entire history of the Russian Empire. The minister who made the overthrow of the autocracy possible. It is January 1917. The eve of the events of revolutionary February. The abdication of Nicholas II is approaching. Less than a year remains until the shameful execution of Mr. Protopopov himself. What will the new minister do? Will he be able to keep his oath to his father and prevent the fall of the Empire?1