From 1954 to 1960, Georgy Mokeevich Markov wrote a continuation of the story of the peasant family of Siberian Strogoffs—novel “The Salt of the Earth” (books 1–2), in which he traced in detail the fate of Matvey’s children and grandchildren, who already changed their social status—became scholars, civil servants, party workers—not so much “sowers” as reformers of postwar Siberia. In the novel, in the spirit of the times, appears also the image of a young rebel with the character of a “sixties” type man—a graduate student Alexey Krayukhin.