In the Ussuri Region. Dersu Uzala

The books of the famous traveler Vladimir Klavdievich Arsenyev (1872–1930) "In the Ussuri Region" and "Dersu Uzala" had a difficult path to the reader. The future renowned ethnographer, geographer, archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian, who was at that time a staff... captain in the Russian army, began working on them in 1906: by leading an expedition to the mountainous region of Sikhote-Alin, he finally had the opportunity to fulfill a long-held dream and engage in the exploration of the Far East, to which he dedicated his entire later life. Taking as the basis the notes from travel diaries, Vladimir Arsenyev reworked them into an exciting adventure prose that retains both the freshness of immediate impressions and the truthfulness of an eyewitness account. When, after many years of work on the texts, the books were finally ready for publication, the October Revolution that broke out made the publication impossible for several years... Beginning in 1920, Arsenyev's works began to be published in his homeland, and as early as 1924, a German translation of the books "In the Ussuri Region" and "Dersu Uzala" was published in Berlin with the participation of Fridtjof Nansen. The adaptations brought special popularity to the books — the 1961 film ("Dersu Uzala", directed by Agasi Babayan) and especially the Oscar-winning film of 1975 ("Dersu Uzala", directed by Akira Kurosawa).