... Having escaped from the mountain gorges, Terek cannot calm down for a long time: he foams noisily on the rifts, drags multi-vessel boulders along with him. And around there is no longer a sign of mountains, they are only on the horizon - they beckon with their cold primitive beauty. Somewhere there, behind us, Georgia, even further - Armenia, and behind it - Turkey and Persia, with which the Russian kings have fought for the Caucasus since ancient times...