About the book: 1977 / The story “Time to Throw Stones” is about the largest Russian writer of the 19th century D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak. In it, Viktor Starikov artistically convincingly depicts how this major personality was formed, how the future writer asserted his democratic positions in literature. The book covers the thirty-year period of D. Mamin-Sibiryak’s life - from the birth of the writer to 1884.