About the book: 2010 / Sergei Vasilyevich Maksimov (1831 - 1901) - Russian traveler, writer, ethnographer researcher, expert on Russian life. Deep knowledge of life and the morals of the people, the truthfulness and liveliness of the sketches provided S. Maximov with his rightful worthy place in Russian literature. On behalf of the Naval Department in 1860-61, the author made a trip to the Far East in order to study the Amur region, this trip entailed a number of articles, and then formed the basis of the book “In the East”, which was included in the fifth volume of collected works.