“The Heirs” is the second book of the trilogy “The Stone Belt” by Evgeny Fedorov. In August 1745, on the road, the founder and formidable master of many Ural factories, Akinfiy Demidov, died suddenly. He left behind an unimaginable inheritance: dozens of factories and mines, many villages and estates with serf peasants—altogether thirty thousand souls. A lot of gold, platinum ingots, precious stones. In large and small cities everywhere stood white-stone Demidov chambers and storerooms. Along the broad Russian rivers floated endless Demidov caravans, and on the shores rose docks of the Ural industrialist. Three sons of the deceased enter the fight for the inheritance. All three are different in age, character, and habits. So who will get it all now? Which of the heirs will become the new master of the Stone Belt?