This is a different Russia and a completely different nineteenth century. A parallel, and perhaps an alternative world, in which the Rurikovichs rule not according to the hereditary “Right of the Ladder”, but only on the basis of the presence of forces capable of awakening natural power and protecting people from the creatures of the Edge - a world of monstrous creatures of chaos breaking through to Earth to quench their thirst blood. And in this world there are magi and sorcerers who have been opposing each other for many thousands of years in the struggle for sources of Power, hunters for the undead and creatures of chaos. Our contemporary and compatriot is called to this world by the gods to fulfill their will, but the colonel and veteran of numerous wars will not be a toy in their hands and will play his own part. 1850 Not all cities have yet been restored after the invasion of Napoleon, who came at the head of an army of five hundred thousand, the echo from the horseshoes of the Cossack squadrons on the Parisian pavements has not yet died down, but new armies are already gathering and pitch sorcerers are being hired to create a strike fist from the creatures and subjugate new sources. Forces on Russian soil.