In the novel “The Upside-Down World,” the hero Semyon Kas’yan mysteriously finds himself in the past—in the post-revolutionary period of the early 20th century. In search of gold buried by Count Oblonsky, he travels to the Russian Far East with his young wife Louise—into China, England… The journey is accompanied by unexpected encounters and dangerous clashes, from which the former Afghan war participant emerges victorious. Before us unfold historical scenes of the Civil War in the Lower Amur, including the movements of Yakov Trypytsyn’s army.