This is the story of a Swedish citizen who went to Russia 140 years ago with the intention of building a career and becoming famous; the story of a foreigner who fell in love with Russia so that he became more Russian than many relatives, non-remembering Ivans; the story of a man who, in the process of his creative throwing, recorded and preserved for us the most valuable examples of the song culture of Russian prison and hard labor, along the way becoming the ancestor of a new musical genre, now defined as "Russian chanson. "Composer, virtuoso pianist, ethnographer, writer, inquisitive researcher, calculating adventurer - this is all about him. About Wilhelm Garteveld. About a Swede with a Russian soul. Or, if you like, about a Russian with Swedish roots.