Parma"s heart

The 15th century, from the Nativity of Christ, almost seven thousand years from the creation of the world ... The Moscow Principality, strengthened, is about the wealth of neighbors, near and distant. Russia slowly steps to the Urals. And in the Urals - not wild people, in the Urals - forest pagan principalities, the ancient taiga world, marvelous and terrible for aliens. Here they do not believe in the salvation of the righteous soul, here they pray to the harsh gods of fate. Will the Orthodox cross overwhelm the thicket of eternal Parma - the coniferous ocean? Will Jesus Christ conquer this gloomy universe? Will the local residents be Russians? And will the Russians become local?
Alexei Ivanov’s novel “The Heart of Parma” about how people and peoples, gaining their homeland, gain fate