About the book: 1983 / Family saga. The events discussed in the book unfold at the beginning of the last century, when the revolution had already occurred in Russia, and in bourgeois Latvia it was just beginning. The head of the family is the captain of a sailing ship, who leaves the family to manage the peasant farm for many months. The fates of each family member are described, how different they are, although people came from the same family nest. The action takes place both in Latvia (in peacetime and in war), and in distant countries, where the father, and after him the son, end up on merchant ships. The second volume includes parts IV to VI. Yank Zitara's trip to Siberia, life in Barnaul and the Latvian colony. Return to homeland and confrontation with class contradictions in newly formed bourgeois Latvia.