The story “Ginseng” (1933) appeared as a result of two travels the writer made in 1931. The first - to Sverdlovsk, for the construction of Uralmash, the second - to the Far East. In his diary of 1931, Prishvin writes about what is happening in the country: “Yes, the suffering is enormous (arrests without end), but <...> an invisible city is being built and growing.” “Ginseng,” like most of the writer’s works of the Soviet period, is the result of his participation in the construction of the “City of the Invisible Fatherland,” the invisible city of the Russian soul, which cannot be destroyed by any violence. The story is written as a philosophical fairy tale about the path of a person consciously emerging from war, an unpeaceful state of existence and turning to the creativity of “a new, better life for people on earth.”