A Russian special forces officer, Alexei, while on a business trip in Syria, is blown up by a land mine and ends up in the 18th century, in the body of an «ignoramus» — the fifteen-year-old son of the landowner Yegorov. Alyoshka, assigned according to the traditions of his time to the Guards regiment and already having a non-commissioned officer’s rank, lives in his parent’s estate, and he needs to wait for his first officer rank for more than a year. At this time, the Russian Empire is waging a fierce war with the Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire. Father Alyoshenka, a retired Elizabethan officer, gives him his fitting, a trophy that he brought after the seven-year war with Prussia. It is with this rifled and long-range weapon that young non-commissioned officer Lyoshka Yegorov is sent to the first Russian army on the Danube.
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