About the book: 2017 / The story described in the novel is a tragic story about the exodus of Admiral Kolchak’s army from Yekaterinburg to Lake Baikal. The author himself was a direct participant in these events, their gloomy and terrible ending - the Great Siberian Ice March through frozen Baikal in January - February 1920. Out of an army of more than one hundred thousand, only about fifteen thousand reached the other side...