About the book: 1981 / If "Black Devil" testified to the birth of a new talent, then the novel "In the Tiger Mountains" showed the maturity of this talent, its seriousness and promise . Ivan Basargin boldly turned off the beaten path and began to pave his own. Over the course of decades, the novel traces the fate of Russian settlers who mastered and protected the Amur region and Primorye from foreigners. The main characters of the novel are the dynasty of rebel Permians, the Silovs, leaders of the motley peasant freemen, which marked the beginning of the settlement of the wild taiga lands