"Master of the Urman" is the story of several families of Old Believers, exiled by decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna to a settlement in Siberia, who retreated deep into the taiga, far from the "tsar's men." But everything has its price, including freedom. And nearly three hundred years later, a journalist named Kotov stumbles upon this mysterious story while setting off in search of his missing friend, a priest of the Old Believer church.