1917 - Russia is at war against the Central Powers, the Tsar has abdicated, and Russia is being "governed" by a shaky coalition of political interests.In the cities starving people are queuing for food. There are strikes and protests, and soldiers are starting to mutiny and desert.Pavel Sukhov is a prosperous merchant in Barnaul, a town in southern Siberia. He and his wife, Maria, their three daughters and a young son, try to distance themselves from the political unrest gripping the nation.But now Barnaul is about to install its first Soviet committee. Soon after, the town is engulfed in a catastrophic fire.In Petrograd (St. Petersburg), the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace, and inexorably, Russia slides into a devastating civil war. The Sukhov's world will be overturned. They will be forced to fight for their very survival.'The Siberians: Fire on the Ice' is Simon Carey's brilliant debut novel, the first in a series of four books. An extraordinary true story based on factual events about a real family, as re-imagined through their own eyes.