About the book: year / A retired rear admiral of the Space Fleet of the Russian Empire is completely settling into another world, in the Russian Empire of the mid-19th century, trying to prepare as much as possible for the Crimean War, which is just around the corner. But not everything depends on him. Russia has too many enemies. And in Russia itself there are plenty of internal enemies who are most worried about the question “What will they say about us in Europe?!” The difficulty also lies in the fact that one cannot stand out too much from the general background when organizing a scientific and technological revolution in this world. All that remains is to walk the line, using the minimum of its capabilities in order to force “enlightened” Europe to abandon another attempt to solve the “Russian question”".