About the book: 1926 / The misadventures of three guys who went hunting in early spring and were caught by an ice drift. The picture of the moving river with its elemental, all-crushing power is magnificently presented. It is impossible to go further along the river, and the guys rush to the shore. There they lose their way and wander in the taiga for four days. In the remote, terrible taiga, which surrounds them like an impenetrable wall, they show amazing courage, resourcefulness, a sense of camaraderie, reaching the point of self-sacrifice, and true heroism. Artist Alexey Ilyich Kravchenko