About the book: 2015 / In fact, the Great War began for one of the Ivanov families after Turkey’s unexpected entry into the First World War. I had to actually confront the insidious enemy and Vadim - a fleet lieutenant, senior artillery officer of a destroyer, and Kirill - also a lieutenant, but of the Imperial Air Force, and their uncle Alexei Ivanovich, a state councilor, “who has his own office on Palace Square.” Could Ivanov Jr., studying in the Separate Midshipman Classes Vasily, have remained aloof from the menacing and strange events? There was no way he could, because he, too, spent that autumn in the city of Russian glory, Sevastopol.…