About the book: 2002 / “... “Father,” Willie answered, “I’m still very lucky... But the French have become so impudent that tomorrow they can be expected even in our quiet Altona... I must run! - Where? - Only to Russia, for only this country can give me peace, only it can frighten Napoleon... So Wilhelm Struve, the son of an Altona teacher, ended up in Russia, where he began to be called Vasily Yakovlevich. In nothing has been decided about his fate yet…»