“Mainland” is populated by different characters - fictional and the most real. But it’s not always possible to distinguish one from the other. The fairy tale turns into a taiga reality, and reality gives way to a miracle. “There is no ancient city in Rus' where there is not a legend about a man who tried to fly,” and many succeeded, because the main miracle is the Man himself. Therefore, in the stories of Sergei Alekseev - the author of the famous series of adventure novels “Treasures of the Valkyrie”, laureate of the M.A. Sholokhov Prize - a beautiful maiden will turn into a bear, and a village man will set up such a chalk that even in a calm he will flap his wings, and on the shores of a distant of the Siberian river, the string of a Becker piano will ring under the melt water...

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