Young film assistant Nikolai Gribshin seizes a chance to transform himself and influence the course of history when he meets scientist Professor Vorobev, and the revolutionist Joseph Stalin while waiting in a remote Russian railway station in 1910 to record the last hours in the life of Leo Tolstoy.
Nineteen-year-old Miriam, imprisoned in Siberia after inadvertently involving herself with revolutionaries in 1911 Kiev, tells the story of her turbulent life in a Jewish village, writing journal entries to the daughter she gave up at birth.
In 1914 Russia, Lara is being groomed by her father to be the next kennel steward for the Count's borzoi dogs unless her mother bears a son, but her visions, although suppressed by her father, seem to suggest she has special bond with the dogs.
In 1913 in Russia, Indy befriends a young Georgian princess involved in the Georgian independence movement and is pursued by secret police and agents of an evil religious fanatic.
