The Heart of the Perm

The 15th century from the Nativity of Christ, almost seven thousand years from the Creation of the world... The principality of Moscow, strengthening, weighs the riches of its neighbors, both close and far. Rus' slowly advances to the Urals. And... in the Urals — there are not wild tribes, in the Urals — there are forest pagan principalities, an ancient taiga world, wonderful and terrifying for outsiders. Here, they do not believe in the salvation of the righteous soul; here, they pray to the stern gods of fate. Will the Orthodox cross overcome the forest evil of the eternal Perm — the coniferous ocean? Will the foreigner Jesus Christ conquer this gloomy universe? Will the local inhabitants become Russian? And will the Russians become locals? Alexei Ivanov's novel «The Heart of the Perm» is about how people and nations, finding a homeland, find their destiny.