In 2012, a Russian squadron under the command of Rear Admiral Larionov reached the shores of Syria, engulfed in the flames of war. But instead of the Mediterranean Sea, it ended up in the Baltic Sea, and from 2012 it ended up in the year 1917. In October, ten days of which, as John Reed later wrote, “shocked the whole world.” Who to be with, whose side to take? How to make sure that the proletarian revolution does not develop into a civil war, and the flywheel of that terrible massacre does not spin up, when brother went against brother, and son against father? The heroes of this book did not hesitate for a minute. Having defeated the German squadron at Moonsund, they headed to Petrograd and helped the Bolsheviks take power into their own hands. But, as it turned out, taking power is only half the battle. We need to keep it and manage it correctly.