The novel by the famous Siberian writer A. Donskikh “A Silver Stream to Baikal” is a story about the possibility or impossibility of happiness, about crime and punishment, about an atrocity bordering on a feat, and about a feat similar to an atrocity. The life of the main character Lev Remezov is dedicated to the persistent search for love in the highest sense of the word. The example of his own parents, who distorted each other’s destinies, leads him to the idea that a man must choose and raise his companion from a young age, literally creating her for himself. This is how Mashenka, the daughter of an old friend, comes into his life...