The famous trilogy “Tales of the People of the Taiga” tells of events taking place during the Civil War in Krasnoyarsk and the Yenisei Governorate. At the center of the narrative is the figure of Noah Lebed—the Horse of the Red one—who, in his social development, reflected the spontaneous popular self-awareness during the tearing down of the old society. The final part of the trilogy, “The Black Poplar,” tells of the Siberian village of the 1920s, the period of the Great Patriotic War, and the first postwar years.