Autumn 1917. Petrograd. Power passes into the hands of the Bolsheviks, and the wholesale expropriation of private property begins. The owner of the Fabergé Partnership jewelry company understands that his workshop will be looted today or tomorrow, and is developing a cunning plan to save especially valuable jewelry made on special order for the imperial house. The jeweler will have to act in conditions “close to combat.” The fact is that the chairman of the Petrograd Cheka, Comrade Uritsky, became interested in Faberge products. And he is not alone. The leader of the most desperate Petrograd gang is also not averse to enriching himself at the expense of the “bourgeois”...