About the book: 1983 / In the new novel, Tyumen writer Zot Tobolkin introduces us to Siberia at the beginning of the 18th century, when it was not so much a storehouse of countless natural resources as a place of exile for disgraced citizens of Russia. The main characters of the novel are people who are courageous in their thoughts and resistant to the vicissitudes of fate in search of freedom and happiness..