About the book: 2017 / The beginning of the twentieth century. Vast Siberia is still full of secrets, in many ways it remains a land of mysteries that attract people who are ready to take any risk. And each of the heroes of the works of the famous Siberian author included in this book - be it a geologist, a historian or a gold miner - can say: “An amazing time! A time when the boundaries of possibilities were pushed into the unknown. When the way out of the most disastrous situation was childishly simple, when death lay in wait, not justified by either circumstances or common sense...»