Chernyy topol'

Zaklyuchitelnaya chast trilogii o sibirskoy derevne, kak novoe pokolenie sibiryakov perezhivaet kataklizmy i peremeny.
«Chernyy topol'»–zaklyuchitelnaya chast trilogii «Skazaniya o lyudyah taygi». Tseloe stoletie proshlo posle sobytiy, opisannyh v romane «Hmel'». Pered chitatelem snova predstaet dalekaya sibirskaya derevnya Belaya Elan, no ee zhiteli teper-potomki geroev pervyh dvuh romanov, novoe pokolenie, kotoromu vypalo zhit v neprostoe vremya: stanovlenie novogo gosudarstva, Velikaya Otechestvennaya voyna, trudnye poslevoennye gody. Privychnyy uklad zhizni staroobryadtsev izmenilsya do neuznavaemosti, na ih dolyu vypalo nemalo ispytaniy i nevzgod, odnako dazhe v stol zybkoe vremya zhizn idet svoim cheredom. A chernyy topol, nemoy svidetel vseh sobytiy, stavshiy simvolom proshlogo i uhodyaschey epohi, medlenno umiraet, i brezzhit rassvet novoy zhizni...