The original Siberian writer Nikolai Gaiduk, possessing rich life experience, created a work that is interesting to a wide range of readers. The novel is written in the “cozy”, confidential and original language of Russian classics. Unexpected and sometimes incredible plot developments and the versatility of N. Gaiduk’s narrative allow us to speak not only of a good, exciting novel, but also of a kind of textbook on life with a pronounced author’s position. The geography of the novel is the Kola Peninsula, Yakutia, Taimyr, Central Russia. The struggle for the purity of their native land, adventures, dangers, love and the persistent search for our distant ancient ancestral home of Hyperborea - this is what motivates the main characters, whose life paths are mystically intertwined, and whose hearts and souls are given to the great, royal North.