Yermak. Regent

The Russo-Japanese war ended with the capitulation of Japan. British troops, having invaded Russian Turkestan, found themselves cut off from British India by Afghan rebels who proclaimed the pro-Russian Ismail Khan as the new emir of Afghanistan. In Turkish Armenia, the cities of Sasun, Olty, Sarıkamış, Kaghisnan, and Igdir are about to rebel, complicating the entry of the Ottoman Empire into the war on the side of Great Britain. At this moment, an unknown assailant kills Emperor Nicholas II. The regent, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, urgently summons Timofei Vasilyevich Alenin-Zeyski from Russian Turkestan to St. Petersburg, where a political intrigue unfolds around the nine-year-old Alexander IV.