Tobol. V 2-h tomah

V epohu velikih reform Petra I «Rossiya molodaya» zakipela dazhe v dremuchey Sibiri. Narozhdayuschayasya imperiya krushila v tayge voevodskoe srednevekov'e. Narody i very peremeshalis'. Plennye shvedy, buharskie kupcy, oficery i chinovniki, katorzhniki, inorodcy, letopiscy i zodchie, kitayskie kontrabandisty, beglye raskol'niki, shamany, pravoslavnye missionery i voinstvennye stepnyaki-dzhungary — vse oni vmeste, vrazhduya mezhdu soboy ili spasaya drug druga, tvorili sud'bu rossiyskoy Azii. Eti obzhigayuschie syuzhety Aleksey Ivanov slozhil v roman-peplum «Tobol».