About the book: 2019 / The book by the writer, ethnographer, folklorist and historian S. V. Farforovsky, who was shot in 1938 by “valiant security officers,” includes two stories about primitive people - “Ladoga Hunters” and “Ice Man”. The publication also includes the cycle “From the Diary of an Ethnographer” (“In the Steppe”, “Chechen Etudes”, “Kalmyk Folklore”), some Caucasian legends collected by Farforovsky and essays “Shahsey-Vakhsey” and “Mysterious Sects”».