About the book: 2000 / “And yet what a strange thing happened to me,” Rupert reflected, “just a few days since I left his estate and... Where is the key to unraveling what is happening to me? The Emperor, Fichtenholtz, Edelia, Helvetia, this mysterious Gunther, the nimble little doctor Karl, who also escaped and apparently didn’t escape at all. Was all this just a pretext to get me out of the province? What the hell? Am I just a cover for some mysterious plans of the emperor? Should I go to Rome? This is some nonsense! An ironic adventure-historical novel is the fruit of the collective creativity of members of the online community. On the cover: “Cart of the Cat” by the FatCatArt project.