About the book: year / The work of the writer Valentin Rybin - author of the poetry collections "Good News", "Blue Mountains", "Qajar Legend", the story about border guards "The Secret of the Bald Man" stone,” is an inherent commitment to historical themes. The history of the emergence of the great friendship of the Russian and Turkmen peoples excites the writer with particular force. V. Rybin devoted a lot of creative strength and energy to studying it. The novel “Sea of ​​Consent” is the fruit of the writer’s hard work. It tells about the first steps of rapprochement between Russians and Turkmen, about those dramatic events that took place off the coast of the Caspian Sea a century and a half ago..