About the book: 1984 / This book by Yaroslavl writer Valery Zamyslov is the final part of the trilogy about Ivan Bolotnikov. The first book, “Bitter Bread,” is dedicated to the hero’s youth, the second to his flight to the Don, the fight against the Tatars and the campaign against the Volga. The third tells about Bolotnikov, the leader of the first peasant war in Russia.