Riding and fighting bears, small nuclear reactors in every house, stern and unsmiling people under the control of the all-seeing eye of the Secret Guard, a high culture of drinking alcohol, only something went wrong with the balalaikas. This is how the Russian Empire of 2007 will appear to the most ordinary person from our gray and boring world in all its glory from Warsaw to the lands in North America. Will a talkative guy be able to resist and not bring down a heap of problems arising from verbal incontinence on his head? What thoughts and conclusions can a young man from the modern generation, who has also developed strong abilities for magic, reach when he finds himself in such strange conditions? And then they took me to serve as a hussar, they say, and on a fighting bear! Oh, what a difficult future awaits this poor fellow...