About the book: 1994 / The novel takes place in the south of Yenisei Siberia after the civil war. The writer focuses on the tragic fate of a freedom-loving Cossack who came into conflict with the Soviet regime. Forcibly torn from his native nest, having lost everything that was dear to him, driven into a dead end, Ivan Solovyov finds no other way out than to go into the taiga and create a detachment of poor people like himself. A reliable depiction of events, sharp, dynamic development of the plot , the mystery that shrouds the love affair, the richness of the language - all this constitutes the distinctive features of the author’s creative style. The publication of the novel is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the famous writer.