The library of the project “History of the Russian State” is the best monuments of world literature recommended by Boris Akunin, which reflect the biography of our country from its very origins. The exquisite and original literary style of A. P. Chapygin, a Russian prose writer, author of historical novels, is highly appreciated by Maxim Gorky and Alexander Blok, mentioned in his work by Sergei Yesenin. The adventurous novel “Walking People” revealed the best sides of the author’s talent: the ability to recreate in detail the life of a distant era, its rich language, to reproduce the seemingly forever lost atmosphere of Russia in the 17th century; show not only the heroes of the past, but the entire breadth of the national element. The book reflects the events that preceded the peasant uprising under the leadership of Stepan Razin, showing the constant readiness of the dark, disenfranchised people to revolt.