Yuri Mikhailovich Yankovsky's childhood fell at a time when tigers were irreconcilable enemies of animal husbandry. They attacked not only horses and deer, but also cows, pigs, dogs. At fifteen, Yuri and his brother Alexander killed a tigress who pulled off a horse and tore his beloved "uncle" Platon Fedorov in the snow. In the book "Half a Century of Tiger Hunting," Yuri Yankovsky, an excellent hunter and connoisseur of nature, vividly and fascinatingly talks about his taiga wanderings and the dangers of hunting tigers.