About the book: 2007 / Book by Alexey Ivanov, winner of many literary awards, author of the famous novels “The Gold of Revolt”, “The Heart of Parma”, “The Geographer Drank the Globe Away” , introduces readers to the places where all these novels take place, and above all, to the Chusovaya River. Chusovaya is a legendary river. Perhaps in Russia, of all the Ural rivers, only the Chusovaya is known. It just so happened: they say “Ural”, they remember “Chusovaya”. And not by chance. The Urals without Chusova are like sails without a mast, like horses without a team, like a planet without an orbit. In the past, the “sovereign road” along which “iron caravans” walked, now it is a wonderful tourist route along which kayaks glide, an unsurpassed national park of mining nature, Chusovaya is closely intertwined with the history of the Perm region, the history of the Urals, and the history of Russia. And with the light hand of Alexei Ivanov, one of the best Russian writers, it also goes into the history of modern Russian literature. The book is published for the first time in the author’s edition.