Khmel

This is the first book in the famous family saga by A. Cherkasov, devoted to the Old Believers of Siberia. It is a novel about the conflict between faith and civilization, the new and the old, the public and the personal… Before the reader’s eyes, masterfully painted scenes of old Siberian life appear, as if alive; the taiga rises before us—submissive only to a strong spirit. That is exactly the kind of heroes who act in A. Cherkasov’s historical trilogy… “Hmel” is the first part of a popular cycle of novels about the history of the Siberian region, recreating events from the Decembrist uprising to the upheavals at the beginning of the 20th century.