Nikolai Okladnikov is a local historian, lawyer, full member of the Russian Geographical Society, and worked for twenty years in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Author of the books “Pustozersk Sufferers”, “Pustozersk and the Nenets (XVI-XIX centuries)”. Published in the magazines “Around the World”, “Northern Expanses”, “Nature”, “Moscow Journal”, “Hunting and Hunting Management”, “Police”, “Slovo”, “World of the North”. This book is about the history of the sovereign border fortress on Pechora - Pustozersk, about the tragic fate of Archpriest Avvakum and his fellow prisoners. The book is based on archival materials that the author collected for about thirty years. The publication is addressed to historians, students, local historians - everyone who cares about the cultural history of the Russian North.