A book "Shaggy God" is sanctified to the beast, that not less than, than double-headed eagle, can apply on a right to be placed on the coat of arms of Russia, - to the brown bear. In the whole world our country is associated exactly with a bear, be that caricatures, allegoric characters or code names. A bear for Russia means more than for "old kind England" ivy or oak, for Spain is a wild boar, and in general any other heraldic character of Europe.Author books is Mikhail Кречмар, candidate of biological sciences, researcher and traveller, member of the International association for a study and guard of bears - studied brown bears 20 more than - on Колыме, Chukotka, Alaska and in the Ussuriisk edge. But science in this book is not present - or it almost is not. And there is an original "bear encyclopaedia", in that it is told a living literary language, who such brown bears, where they live, how many bears in the world, as their people kill and as bears kill people.And also - what place was occupied by bears in history of Russia and world, as and why a faith in Bear became the first cult of primitive humanity, why fairy-tales with bears are so popular at the people of the world and whether it is possible to kill a bear from a pistol. And in each of these divisions an author finds for a reader something not known before to wide public.There is here the head sanctified to notorious to practice of hunt of bear from a helicopter, - and here for a reader turns out very much unknown, touching the "games" of power of propertied.But all these amusing, instructive or simply curious histories at reading grow into one - history of mutual relations of Man of Reasonable and Brown Bear.For wide steep readers.