Even under Peter the Great, a waterway was conceived connecting two seas - the White and Baltic. Among the dense forests of Karelia, the tsar ordered to cut a clearing and drag the ships on dry land. Since then, the people have retained the name - Osudareva Road. Mikhail Prishvin saw its unovergrown trail and heard this name during his travels in the North. But a new time has come. New people came and began to dig a great waterway along the old trail... The book also includes one of the most poetic works of Mikhail Prishvin, his “swan song” - the fairy tale “The Thicket of the Ship”. According to K.A. Fedina, “The Thicket of Ships” absorbed all the qualities that Prishvin had long possessed, all the art that he developed, he acquired along the way, and the story became, in its own way, crystallized Prishvin’s prose of unprecedented richness, united by the theme of search that runs through Prishvin’s works “ true truth" both about nature and about man.