The Heart of the Parma

The 15th century AD, almost seven thousand years since the Creation of the world... The Moscow principality, growing stronger, is eyeing the riches of its neighbors, near and far. Rus is slowly advancing towards 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 newcomers. Here they do not believe in the salvation of the righteous soul, here they pray to the harsh gods of fate. Will the Orthodox cross overcome the swampy evil of the eternal Parma — the coniferous ocean? Will this gloomy universe be conquered by the stranger Jesus Christ? Will the locals become Russians? And will the Russians become locals?
Alexei Ivanov's novel «The Heart of the Parma» is about how people and nations, finding their homeland, find their destiny.