About the book: 2016 / The gold rush at the turn of the century, which swept Eastern Siberia and pulled hundreds and thousands of people into its deadly networks - geologists, Cossacks, peasants, forest workers, — continues to reap a bloody harvest. Each new season opens up fresh gold mines, where fortune hunters rush, often to their destruction and very rarely to happiness. So in the summer of 1904, when word spread about another find of placer gold - in the Olkhovsky tract near the Silver Belt spring, a dispute arose between the prospectors: who would be the first to extract the treasured, cursed metal? And, as always, people, going into the taiga, forgot who is really the boss here…