The action takes place in the era of reforms of Peter the Great. In those days,when the emerging Empire destroyed the Voivodeship middle ages in the taiga. Everything mixed up here: faiths and Nations. The history of Russian Asia was made by captive Swedes, foreigners, Bukhara merchants, officials and officers, convicts, architects and chroniclers, Chinese smugglers, shamans and fugitive schismatics, Orthodox missionaries and militant steppe Jungars.