About the book: 2024 / The year one thousand seven hundred and seven has just begun. Russian troops fight the Swedes, kill, die, defending the Fatherland. The Russian kingdom is restless and sometimes scary: constant riots on the outskirts of a huge state, raids by the Crimean Tatars almost every spring. The young Tsarevich Alexei, deprived of his father’s attention and care, is under the tutelage of His Serene Highness Prince Menshikov, who is as active as the sovereign and at the same time, paying almost no attention to his master’s son. It so happened that another trip to the bathhouse ended for the prince with a strange loss of consciousness, after which he woke up not the same as he was a few days ago. In the body of the young heir to the future great empire is our contemporary Ivan Pesterev, who died from a ball lightning strike. Which path should the young man choose from now on: remain the same Alexei, in whom his father was disappointed, or choose the difficult, dangerous path of transformation, continuing the work of Peter the Great?