Ватага

1919. The civil war exceeded the Ural Range and doused the Siberian spaces with a bloody surge. The indigenous Chaldon Stepan Zykov led a detachment of partisans and repelled the county town from the Kolchakovites, helped the Bolsheviks who raised the rebellion and ... was shot by the Red Army soldiers with his wife on the threshold of his own house ... The Siberian taiga is great and generous, the inexhaustible of her wealth - honey, a fur, nut. And the people living in the taiga are wide and they are close to their souls and body. And every spring from large and small settlements go to the taiga for the old and small - tramps - in the hope of finding their luck. So once at one fire a former political Andrei, the old fishman Lehman, and two inseparable friends-Antokha and Vanka-Svistoplyas