"The Red Horse" is a continuation of the novel "Hop" and the second part of the famous trilogy by Alexei Cherkasov "Tales of the People of the Taiga", created by him in collaboration with his wife Polina Moskvitina. The novel was written in 1972, later than the other books in the trilogy, and is dedicated to the turbulent events of the Civil War.
Siberia is gripped by white terror, and even the adamant Old Believers could not stay away from political events: The White Elan was divided into two camps, agitated by the rapid flight of a formidable and inexorable time. "Time is not a horse, you will not go around, you will not stop – it flies-rushes, but where? And how will it be tomorrow, the day after tomorrow? Death or health? For good or for worse, will it drag away the hectic time?.."
The need to choose your own path also arises in front of the main character of the novel – Cossack cornet Noah Lebed, nicknamed the Red Horse, whose actions are guided by an unshakable faith in the triumph of goodness and justice: "No one will overthrow my conscience. And honor. The whole world stands on that."