A passage from the new novel Guzel Yakhina - especially for readers of "New" Relatives, Chekists, Cossacks, small tramps with their language, psychology, superstition and hopes-the characters of the new novel Guzel Yakhina, "Echelon on Samarkand". This is an exciting journey, a kind of “red torte”. 1923. Five hundred street children are evacuated from Kazan to Samarkand.