Chronicles: Russia will feature the Russian assassin Nikolai Orelov in 1918, during the aftermath of the October Revolution. Orelov wants to leave with his family, but is required to perform one last mission for the Assassin Order: infiltrate the house where the Tsar's family is being held by the Bolsheviks, and steal an artifact that has been fought over by Assassins and Templars for centuries. Along the way, he witnesses the massacre of the Tsar Nicholas II's children, but manages to save the princess, Anastasia. He must escape the Templars while protecting the artifact and Anastasia

Set in early twentieth-century Russia in the turbulent aftermath of the 1917 October Revolution, the story follows Nikolai Orelov, a weary member of the Assassin Brotherhood. In 1918, Nikolai dreams of retiring and leaving the country with his family, but first agrees to carry out one final mission: to recover a powerful artifact known as the Precursor box, believed to be in the hands of the Romanov family. He travels to Yekaterinburg and infiltrates the house where the former Tsar Nicholas II and his family are being held, only to witness their execution at the hands of Templar agents hidden within the Red Army, who are also hunting the box. In the aftermath, Nikolai discovers that the Tsar's youngest daughter, Anastasia, has survived and now carries the mysterious artifact, drawing him into a desperate flight through a nation torn apart by revolution.