About the book: year / In the late autumn of 1595, rumors reached Moscow that in distant Siberia, in the Ugra land, a certain evil witch nicknamed the Golden Baba had appeared, who had knocked out the local princelings to revolt. The famous detective Markel Kosoy, well known to readers from the novels “The Uglitsky Affair”, “The Tsar’s Affair” and “The Siberian Affair”, sets off to find out what is going on there.».