About the book: 2018 / Peasant boy Ileika Arapov from a young age dreams of finding the promised land of Belovodye - the land of peasant happiness. Having gone through the crucible of trials, having experienced cruel injustice and torture, he sets out on the path of struggle against the oppressors and grows into a brave leader of the rebellious people, one of the closest associates of Emelyan Pugachev. The historical novel by the writer Vladimir Burtovoy “Bells Ring Over Samara” completes the trilogy about the Volga region on the eve and during the peasant war led by E. I. Pugachev.