This part of Mariusz Wilk’s “Northern Diary” is dedicated to Zaonezhie. It was not the war, not the revolution, and not even the construction of socialism that changed, in his opinion, the face of Russia. The reason for this was the destruction of the village - in particular, Konda Berezhnaya, where Vilk settled in the early 2000s. But it is here, in daily work and contemplation, that the author begins to see himself, and the “territory of penetration” becomes not only nature and history, but also literature - the poetry of Nikolai Klyuev, the prose of Victor Pelevin...