Gold

The novel "Gold" provides a vivid panorama of life among the Ural gold diggers in the 1860s. Serfdom has just been abolished. And people often do not understand how to handle the freedom that has suddenly fallen upon them.
Two lines – gold mining and the everyday color of the mining camps – intertwine in the monstrous patterns of the "gold rush." The terrible, destructive power of gold enslaves the hearts of people, bringing happiness to no one: people resort to all kinds of excess, engage in deception, murder, abandon their families, and go mad…