“A great road awaits you!” every new book by the famous Russian writer and traveler Grigory Fedoseyev seemed to tell the reader. For any of this writer’s books is one of the roads he had to travel in his long life. He journeyed in every possible way: on horses and reindeer, in an all-terrain vehicle and with dogs, in a boat and in a helicopter, but most often—on foot. Behind him lay thousands of kilometers of taiga and tundra, walls of midges, dozens of mountain ranges crossed, the crash of a raft hurled onto a river rapid…
The novel “Death Will Wait for Me” is based on Grigory Fedoseyev’s own diary entries and the recollections of his fellow expedition members from the journey across the Stanovoy Range. A special place in the novel is occupied by the vivid and tragic fates of Trofim, the expedition’s young ward, the Evenk guide Ulukitkan, as well as the beloved dog Kuchum.