Perhaps, today the novel-epic of "Угрюм-река" is read as a bright, superdynamic detective on a theme our past. And that, who thinks that if a book is sanctified to the gone times is mistaken, then she uninteresting. In her love avid, merciless, and murder, is present on soil of passion, and колоритнейшие characters of heroes. It is Russia on cross-roads times. An author, Вячеслав Шишков, wrote: "" Угрюм-река is a that thing for the sake of that I was" born. Such confession costs expensive.