This novel was a continuation of the book “Adviser to the President,” published several years ago. There are the same main characters here, but Mikhail Bulgakov is no longer there, and there is no need for a time machine. Again, a hypothetical situation is considered - this time an armed rebellion, fraught with the outbreak of civil war. The last names of some famous characters are not true because words were put into their mouths that they may never have spoken.