It is the year of the Tsar 2668 AD and the sound of wedding bells is in the air. Jena Makarov, the daughter of Tsar Vladimir the Conqueror, is betrothed to Mikhail Deriabin, media tyrant and patriarch of the House of Bolshoi. Nikolai Dante is less than happy with the announcement.

He's a lover, adventurer and a gambler - and he's too cool to kill. His name is Nikolai Dante and he's fighting and drinking a path of mayhem and glory across future Russia! Having discovered his heritage and bio-bonded with the awesome Weapons Crest, Dante is getting to know his newfound family a little better.

For over fifteen years, Nikolai Dante has been entertaining the readers of 2000 AD as he fought, thieved and loved his way through life in 27th-Century Russia. A long-running story of grand adventure which began in 1997 reaches its conclusion in 2012.

Year of the Tsar 2676 AD. The bastard son of the Romanovs, Nikolai Dante, leads a rebellion against Vladimir the Conqueror. Supported by the tyrant's daughter, Jena Makarov, his mother - pirate queen Katarina Dante - and some of his weapons-crest-enabled siblings, can Dante finally bring down Vladimir?