After the cadet corps there was supposed to be one road, and a straight one: to the Mozhaisky Academy or any other military college, and at first I honestly dreamed of it, trying on myself now a security officer, now an intelligence officer, now some other post with an unbending face. The dream lasted as long as I spent inside the environment itself: the longer I was in it, the clearer it became that we did not suit each other.
Civilian Petersburg required money my parents did not have then, since in those years full board was given only to the military, and everything else had to be bought. That is how I ended up at Stavropol State University, in the faculty of computer security.