Russko-yaponskaya voyna zakonchilas kapitulyatsiey YAponii. Angliyskie voyska, vtorgshiesya v Russkiy Turkestan, okazavshis otrezannymi ot Britanskoy Indii vosstavshimi afgantsami, sdalis v plen. I v etot moment neizvestnyy ubivaet Nikolaya II. A potom sovershaet pokushenie na devyatiletnego Aleksandra IV, vo vremya kotorogo ubiytsu rossiyskogo imperatora zaderzhivayut. Provedennoe rassledovanie pokazyvaet, chto ubiystvo i pokushenie bylo provedeno po pryamomu prikazu Georga V. Rossiyskaya imperiya nanosit otvetnyy udar. Britanskiy monarh ubit snayperskoy paroy, a russkie dirizhabli atakuyut na reyde Portsmuta angliyskiy flot Kanala. Vilgelm II, vpechatlennyy uspehami Rossii v neobyavlennoy voyne s Britaniey, predlagaet regentu Mihailu Aleksandrovichu sovmestno razgromit Frantsiyu i Angliyu. Rossiya gotova k protivostoyaniyu s Antantoy
