The tyrant of iron and blood, the bulwark of Eastern Europe, the savior of the Soviet Union, the master of Constantinople, the liberator of the Third Rome, the new tsar of the north, the nightmare of Chechnya, the meat grinder of the free world, and the leader of the red regime, General Secretary Gennady Ivanovich Yanaev.

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A natural engineering man, for some unknown reason, traveled to France before the Revolution and became the elder brother of the future Emperor Napoleon.

Did he hug this thigh homeopathically, and then wait for death; or seize this opportunity to create his own great cause?

The fjord lay still, its surface undisturbed, reflecting the leaden gray storm clouds overhead. Flocks of ravens circled and swooped, heralding the arrival of an icy northern wind. This was the first sight the protagonist beheld after traversing time to ninth-century Scandinavia. He found himself an ordinary self-sustaining farmer, possessing nothing more than a barren, desolate wheat field. For centuries, the glory of the Roman Empire had crumbled into dust, and the world lay fractured. Kings warred incessantly, and in this turbulent, grim medieval era, his foremost task was survival—then, to find a way to end the chaos.