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Readers are presented with history: not about the lives of remarkable, outstanding people, nor about mysterious or original events. It is the daily union of ordinary people, who find their destiny on this continent. It is a chronology of events, but not a documentary of events. The majority of the history was not preserved. Because of it the author allowed himself to cultivate his own literature of varying factual details their actual completed life. Of course the book is starting with the pioneers from Alaska, Oregon and California. The Shelexoffs, Rizanoffs, Baranoffs, Rotschevs, Russian-American company (RAC), Piter Demetiev, Vasily Baranshikov, Feodor Karjavin, Ivan Turchaninoff. Some historical figures play a part, and here the author is holding strictly to th facts of their lives.
Some figures are fictionalized, along with the facts of their lives about those real people. Among them figures like Josef Volkoff, Jakob Devera and Feodor Bolshakov.The last chapters are given to modern pilgrims:they are like little sharp splinters formed as a result of an explosion of an enormous Soviet planet that flew over America. These foreign splinters tried with all their energy to assimilate in this new environment. To assimilate means to give this environment all one's energy otherwise it is a death.
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