Under the sign of Amur. The call of Amur

At eighteen, the ensign, at thirty-eight-Governor-General of Eastern Siberia, the owner of half of Russia, from the Yenisei to the Pacific Ocean. From the youth, the life motto of N. N. Muravyov became lines from the poem by G. R. Derzhavin “The nobleman”: “His whole thought, words, act should be: benefit, glory, honor.” And he considered himself, according to the same Derzhavin, “an instrument of power.”
a general who did not deserve his title and Order on the floor, ants and in civilian life began an open war with officials unclean in his hands, bribe takers and embezzlers. merchants and gold miners, which cost him not only denunciations to the capital, but also direct attempts on life. At the same time, with all his might he seeks to facilitate the life of the Decembrists, contributes to Captain Nevelsky in the study of the mouth of the Amur and fights the machinations of English and French spies. He does not suspect that the burning personal hatred of his two fatal enemies - Henry, once lover of his wife Catherine, and Vogula, who he insulted the former legionnaire, is mixed with this struggle. But next to the general, reliable associates from different classes, and most importantly, leads him in life and helps in affairs of love