Old Believers of the Urals. Nizhny Tagil Tower, Cossack Round-the-World Journey, and the Demon of Samora

The Urals — it is not only copper and gemstones, but also a land where factory workshops coexist with secret hermitages, and the industrial power is nourished by the living water of ancient faith. Who are the Ural Old Believers? Conservatives who preserved medieval Russia or pioneers who built the Demidov empire?


The book, born in expeditions, leads to the very essence of the Old Believer world: to the memorial table and the factory workshop, to the icons of the Nizhny Tagil school and on a quest for the fairy-tale Belovodye. This is an opportunity to see the Urals through the lens of living tradition, where faith breathes in every gesture, and antiquity proves to be surprisingly modern.