Mikhail Tarkovsky’s book talks about the main and big things: how to live honestly, what theft is, what heroism is... “I wanted to show the relationship between citizen and sovereign, on the one hand, and the situation in Russia at the end of the twentieth century, on the other,” he says. writer. – In our taiga, just as the Old Believers prayed from old books, they still pray. As the sable men traded, so they trade. And just as the dogs were faithful to their master and their fishing calling, they remain so faithful.”