About the book: year / He swore allegiance to the Russian emperor. And he remained faithful to the oath. He fought bravely in the Russian-Japanese and First World Wars. But he did not want to swear allegiance to the Bolsheviks and ended up first in the camp of the whites, and then in exile. All his friends turned away from him when they learned that in 1935 he had joined the service of his recent enemies. But the former Wrangel officer, captain of the first rank Mikhail Korff, and the current frigate - captain of the German fleet Michel Korf, went for it for serious reasons. Nobody knows his secret. When his time comes, he will be able to return forty years ago, to a cold October day in 1902, when an amazing meeting took place that radically changed his life. And not return empty-handed. And he will have the opportunity to go through his life path again. And try to keep Russia from turning down the path that once already led it to disaster. You cannot enter the same water twice - that’s what the ancients said. But it's worth a try…