Civil War. Twentieth year. Avalanches of riders and horses in the snowy Don steppes - and a young single security officer, a “romantic of the revolution,” who is chasing the tumbleweeds of human destinies, where it is impossible to distinguish red from white, heroes from monsters, victims from executioners, and even supposedly living from dead . The new novel by Sergei Samsonov is a reanimated “Eastern”, written at the limit of historical authenticity, a large-scale epic about the roots of violence and evil in the Russian character and human nature, about the destructiveness of power and salvation in love, about the utopian dream and the blood that has to be paid for it. Sergei Samsonov is a laureate of the “Debut”, “Yasnaya Polyana” awards, a finalist of the “National Bestseller” and “Big Book” awards! “It has been theoretically proven that a 25-year-old person can write “Quiet Don,” but when you yourself encounter such a phenomenon...” - Lev Danilkin.