How I would like to turn my whole life into one continuous adventure! Easy money, travel, love passions... This is exactly how cornet Nikolai Savin, one of the most brilliant adventurers in history, dreamed of arranging his destiny. His adventures begin with a talented prank - fifteen-year-old lyceum student Savin makes up himself as Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich and in this form greets this distinguished person. For a daring offense, the young man is punished with rods and expelled from the lyceum. And then a whirlwind of incredible events swirls around Savin. He serves as an adjutant to the Grand Duke, he is accused of stealing diamonds from the palace, and is sent to hard labor... Gifted with a brilliant mind, courage and charisma, the cornet does not want to obey the laws. He uses everything to grab the best piece of life - connections with revolutionaries and clever scams, gambling and love affairs. It seems that Fortune plays with the young cornet like a cat with a mouse. Either he will give you a fabulous jackpot, or he will hand you over to the power of a ruthless police chief.