In the Valley, which lies between the Altai Mountains, the Kalba Range and Lake Zaisan, Russian people have settled since the 18th century: Old Believers, mining workers, Cossacks, and peasant settlers. This book tells about their life and the fiery whirlwinds of the first third of the 20th century, about the Revolution, the Civil War, about the Reds and the Whites, emigration, about all the vicissitudes of their lives... About love, which helped the main characters survive the horrors of a fratricidal war, the death of loved ones, and will not sink to the bottom of life.