Magazine “Hunting and Hunting Management” No. 4, 2009 Drawings by B. Ignatiev Shishkov’s Siberian stories about the Tungus reflect not only the life of a forest man, in them the reader gets acquainted with his spiritual world, with his stern and kind soul. Where Russian people sometimes found themselves powerless before the wild, overwhelming force of the taiga, where brave explorers were threatened with death, the Tungus often helped them in a brotherly manner. One episode from camp life is described by Vyacheslav Shishkov in the essay “Cold Land.”