About the book: 2007 / Who are they - the servants of the Sovereign? These are officers of Peter's great army. An army that went through all the crucibles of the Great Northern War, drank all the bitterness of the first defeats and deserved the fanfare of victory in its honor at Poltava. Russian officers - the sons of nobles Pyotr Suzdaltsev and Andrei Safonov, their teacher, the old soldier Afanasy Khlopov, the Scotsman, professional landsknecht Douglas McCorin, who fought his whole life in different armies, but admitted that he was never as happy as with the Russians - here those who formed the backbone of Peter's new army. Those who became true servants of the sovereign. And no matter how fate beats them, no matter what obstacles and thorns, injustices and insults they encounter along the way, they cannot turn away from it. For they are the servants of the Sovereign.