Dmitry Borisovich Bochkarov is a young teacher who flees from love into the wilds of Siberia. He spends the long journey to Tomsk in a feverish delirium, and upon arriving in the city he is swept up in a whirlpool of mystical events. And over all of this stands the figure of Ivan Alexandrovich β the Siberian faun.
Burkin's novel "A Faun on the Banks of the Tom" was awarded the Debut Prize in the category of long-form fiction in 2007. The jury chairman, the celebrated writer and presidential adviser Anatoly Pristavkin, presenting the award, admitted that the Tomsk writer's book reminded him of the prose of Bulat Okudzhava. The literary community of the capital has broadly dubbed Stanislav's work "A Faun on the Banks of the Tom" a breakthrough in Russian literature. Stanislav is being called the creator of a new genre on the literary map of Russia β the mystical novel in the classical style about Siberia.