About the book: 2023 / Historical fate brought two great states, Russia and China, face to face on the Amur, two great peoples, and from then on they went side by side, closely side by side, like two neighbors on the endless road of life. There were disagreements between them, even quarrels and clashes, there was mutual assistance and vows of eternal friendship - everything, as happens with neighbors. And the inhabitants of these countries, wittingly or unwittingly, repeated and repeat their relationships in their lives. The stories of two families, two clans - the Russian Cossack Sayaping and the Chinese shoemaker Wang Xiuming - as if in a mirror, reflect this thorny joint path: there is a place for both love and hatred, and sometimes it is not known what is more and where these mutual feelings will lead.