What is this book about? Of course, it’s about the eternal—about love. In all its manifestations: love for a woman, for the Motherland, for friends. This is a debut novel, don't judge the author too harshly. Maybe he’s a little naive, but amid today’s fashion for cruelty and dirt in films and books, violence on TV and on the Internet, I really want to stop and look back. And again believe in the wonderful ideals of reverent mutual love, loyalty to one’s country, duty, and honor of a Russian officer. I really hope that I succeeded in this at least partly... She is a beautiful young princess, brought up to live in society. He is a young officer, lieutenant of the Imperial Guard. Between them there is an abyss of her origin, wealth, position in the world. But everything changes in 1917. The familiar world collapses into small fragments. How not to go crazy and lose yourself, how to live on when the country you loved no longer exists? And only love can win and give hope.