Non-combatant

Quite a distant future. Retired admiral of the Space Fleet of the Russian Empire Sergey Tikhonov, who participated in many secret operations and possesses compromising material on the powerful of this world, becomes a dangerous witness subjected to elimination after a change of power. However, the admiral's secret, which he has kept for over a hundred years, gives him a chance to survive. Although in a rather peculiar way. Thanks to a secret device that came into his hands during his tumultuous youth on a wild planet, his mind, along with the device, is transported over a vast distance to a copy of our Earth. But there, the age of steam reigns — the year 1850. After being revived and inhabiting the body of a twenty-year-old slacker student Yuri Davydov — the son of a large industrialist who became a victim of a contract killing — the admiral integrates into local society and sets himself the task of preventing the defeat of the Russian Empire in the Crimean War.