1860. The Yenisei province was covered by a “gold rush”, and prospectors from all over the country ran to develop gold mines. For ingots and precious sand lying right under their feet, a real war unfolded between fugitive convicts, exiled officers, merchants and gendarmes. The echoes of passions raging in the expanses of the taiga, through the centuries rolled to modern Krasnoyarsk, when the city came “Russian Frenchwoman” Barbara and a young historian Viktor Antonov. The official version of the
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