About the book: year / From deportation to Kazakhstan, where in the thirties more than one or two hundred Cossack families from Transbaikalia rotted, the Bryukhovs were saved only by the fact that they made good with their own hands. A herd of twenty cows and seventeen horses was simply confiscated to the collective farm, as stolen from the people, and they themselves were allowed to stay in Atamanovka, since they did not keep farm laborers. Four married sons and daughters-in-law, the old man Bryukhov himself, his wife and only daughter Dasha and his unlucky son-in-law worked alone in this large farm. No one was hired from outside....