Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin (1873-1954) - Russian writer and publicist, according to contemporaries, who united man and nature with a simple heartfelt thought. In his travels around the Russian North, Prishvin became acquainted with the life and speech of the northerners, wrote down tales, conveying them in a unique form of travel sketches. Prishvin recalls the beginning of his writing as follows: “A trip of just one month to the Olonets province, I wrote simply what I saw - and the book “In the Land of Unfrightened Birds” was published, for which real scientists promoted me to ethnographer, without even imagining the depth of my ignorance in this science." For this book, Prishvin was elected a full member of the Geographical Society, headed by the famous traveler Semenov-Tyan-Shansky. In 1907, a new trip to the North and a new book, “Behind the Magic Kolobok.” In pre-revolutionary criticism they wrote about it like this: “This book is a brilliant work of art... That such a book could remain little known is one of the curiosities of our literary life.”