About the book: 2018 / This is the story of a Swedish citizen who 140 years ago went to Russia with the intention of building a career and becoming famous; the story of a foreigner who fell in love with Russia so much that he became more Russian than many Ivans who do not remember their kinship; the story of a man who, in the process of his creative wanderings, recorded and preserved for us the most valuable examples of the song culture of Russian prison and hard labor, simultaneously becoming the founder of a new musical genre, now defined as “Russian chanson”. Composer, virtuoso pianist, ethnographer, writer, inquisitive researcher , a calculating adventurer - that's all about him. About Wilhelm Harteveld. About a Swede with a Russian soul. Or, if you prefer, about a Russian with Swedish roots.