Shard of the empire

The Russian Empire collapsed, the civil war is lost, the anemic surviving fire defeated scattered around the world. That's just ten years later, the council of advice is still those who remember. He remembers the death of his relatives, and is going to forget about it. One of them leads on a winding road of life exclusively revenge, but will the “fragment of the empire” be limited only to it? Or a reason will appear a chance to swing to more than so desired, but still ordinary retribution...