Konstantin Sedykh's novel "Dauria" is often compared to "The Quiet Don": these are books about the fate of the Cossacks in the 20th century; about the violation of centuries—old traditions that seemed unshakable; about the destruction of the old world and the formation of a new one — frightening and cruel for some, desirable and long-awaited for others. The events described in "Dauria" unfold many thousands of kilometers from the Don steppes — in Transbaikalia. The civil war reaches the farthest borders of the country: not only residents of the village of Mungalovsky, but also members of the same family, the Ulybin Cossacks, are divided into red and white. Konstantin Sedykh called this novel his favorite brainchild, to whom he gave "an abyss of labor": the work on the novel took 15 years. Legends and legends, archival sources, memoirs of participants in the Civil War, scientific works — all this has formed a colorful panorama of Transbaikalia at the beginning of the 20th century. "Dauria" has been translated into many languages, published in the UK, USA, France, Canada and Yugoslavia; during the author's lifetime, the novel went through more than 100 editions. Based on the book, a two-part feature film of the same name (1971) was shot, in which the roles were played by Vasily Shukshin, Vitaly Solomin, Yefim Kopelyan and other wonderful actors.