The next volume of the “Northern Diary” of Mariusz Wilk, a writer and traveler who has lived in the Russian North for almost twenty years, opens a new page in his work. The book consists of three plots: a story about Petrozavodsk; a journey through Labrador following another vagabond writer Kenneth White and, finally, the continuation of the story about life in the house above Onego in the abandoned village of Konda Berezhnaya. The new path is conceptualized simultaneously by Wilk the writer and Wilk the father: the birth of his daughter prompted him to radically reconsider his life attitudes. The point of view chosen by the author allows us to overcome many stereotypes of the Polish view of Russia, without getting bogged down in no less numerous Russian stereotypes. This is a view from both “inside” and “outside”, and therefore it is especially valuable.