Dashing guests. Schukin M.N.

The second half of the XIX century. The Siberian edge is wide and vast. In the upper reaches of the Talai River, luring the gold miners, dashings and merchants, the events of Danila Shaidurov, who was closing his beloved without blessing, but state importance.

around a couple of Lyudyes-the political adventurer Caesar Belozerov and the former monk-growing, unfold. Boriska, dreaming of “their own kingdom”, is united in the Siberian deafomanias: fugitive convicts, rogue and other robbery people. The gang becomes the main misfortune and the threat of the good refuge of the Old Believers, who had hung up behind the Kedrovsky ridge. But neither those nor the others want to live in such a neighborhood.