About the book: 2018 / For centuries, nothing has happened in the forest wilderness of the Zarechensky Plateau. In the “big world”, princes and kings replace each other, states collapse - but people in Medvezhye Calm live, as before, a difficult but familiar life, until one day war knocks on the doors with gun butts. And it would be a big disaster - but then old fairy tales, having acquired flesh and blood, appear on the threshold. Deyan Khimzhich, who no longer dreamed of ever leaving his home and lived only by other people’s stories, will have to again feel the earth with two feet, set off on the road and find out for himself, where truth ends and legend begins. But he's not very happy about it…